From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 12:40:06 MDT
Amara Graps wrote:
>
> > > that it is dippy hippy left wingers
>
> 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.
So do I, but the primary problem is that the spirit of acceptance and
all inclusive tolerance typical of the scene causes a severe erosion of
the logical faculties. Now, I know a significant number of otherwise
intelligent male hippies who are only into astrology (like they were
once into anti-war protesting) only because it gets them laid.
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