The Living The Good Life Edited By Bargdill, Alfred Alder

In the Living The Good Life edited by Bargdill, Alfred Alder suggests in order to live a good life one â€Å"must make a contribution to society† (Bargdill 19-20). Weisstein formed several social community organizations like the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (1969), Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band (CWLRB) in 1970. These organizations along with her other many contributions to social society inspired a new wave of rational thinkers within the community. Sidney Jourard describes personal growth occurs when the present â€Å"world structure† has shattered (through an insight) and a new â€Å"world structure† replaces it. (Bargdill 181). Weisstein’s connection, â€Å"In Chicago, one cold and sunny day in March of 1970, I was lying on the sofa listening to the radio. First, Mick Jagger crowed that his once feisty girlfriend was now â€Å"under his thumb.† Then Janis Joplin moaned with thrilled resignation that love was like â€Å" a ball and chain.† I somersaulted off the sofa, leapt up into the air, and came down howling at the radio: â€Å"Rock is the insurgent culture of the era! How criminal to make the subjugation and suffering of women so sexy! We’ve got to do something about this! We’ll†¦ We’ll organize our own rock band!† Why not see what would happen if we created visionary, feminist rock? Not only did every 14-year-old girl in the city listen to rock, but also every feminist did. We all identified with the counter-culture; rock was considered Our Music: dangerous, sexy, and our harbinger of the