A sharp, mischievous manifesto of 1970s counterculture thinking. 

Richard Neville—editor of Oz magazine and a central figure in Australia’s underground press—takes aim at authoritarianism, moral panic, and joyless radicalism alike, proposing play as a serious political force.

The book moves freely between cultural criticism, provocation, satire, and strategy, drawing on youth movements, media disruption, and everyday acts of saying "no way". Neville insists that liberation without pleasure simply recreates the systems it claims to oppose.

This Paladin paperback captures the book in its original moment—loose, energetic, and impatient with respectability—while still reading as a useful lens on contemporary culture wars, attention economies, and performative seriousness.