From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 11:47:05 MDT
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 11:21:02AM -0400, Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> 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.
This is why I love the Culture. Hippy-dippies with guns. Beeg guns. (Beeg
guns with funny names, too.) "Soft... like the ocean." I think Zakalwe has a
good rant about this near the beginning of _Use of Weapons_.
I note Amara focused on the hippie aesthetics in her post, not on hippie
ideology.
Anyway, it'd be easy to argue that we weren't attacked because of our openness
and niceness, but because of our non-hippie behaviors. Or support for such
in Israel. We had this argument back in September, so I won't participate in
a recapitulation (plus I'm about to leave the Land of Broadband). But the
hippies could say that if the US supported peace, love and justice more
genuinely we wouldn't have been attacked. Or if we had, we wouldn't have had
half the world speculating on how we brought it upon ourselves.
> Its the sustainability issue. Can hippy-dippyism work?
Strongly pacifist hippyism, probably not. That's not the only variety though.
-xx- Damien X-)
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