From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 09:21:02 MDT
Dr. Graps explained:::::
<<But Mike, I enjoyed being a dippy hippy left-winger! I caught only
the tail end of the 1960s, but where I lived, Maui-wowie and Kona-gold
were abundant, I macrame'd plant hangers and made puka shell necklaces,
I loved music from Santana, the Doors and Janis Joplin and I wore tie-dyed
t-shirts. I owned a lava lamp and many black-light posters and I drove
Volkswagon beetles for 14 years. Even into the 1980s, I liked hanging
out with the macrame people in Boulder and Santa Cruz, and, today,
I *still* wear tie-dyed t-shirts.
Amara
(dippy-hippy extraordinaire) >>
Yes the hippy-dippy (thank you George Carlin) thing was throughly, enjoyable,
Dr. Graps. However, and there is always a however, not everyone can ride
that ride again. For some of us, troubled by the attack on the USA on 9-11,
being dippy-hippy nice-guy invites aggression from people who have no
sympathy in that direction. Who see "openess" and easy-going, "niceness" as
an invitation to victimize.
As the head of the Hudson Institute, the late, Herman Kahn once quipped:
"As a young man I was a dedicated Democratic Socialist. Then Hitler began to
march. It was clear to see that the Germans had the best generals in the
world. The best soldiers in the world, and the best weapons and training. It
was then I began to see that the idealism of my youth had become unworkable."
Norman Podhoretz had also stated:
"A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality"
Its the sustainability issue. Can hippy-dippyism work?
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