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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rambi who wrote (33516)3/29/1999 11:44:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
> But I don't believe that you can truly divide us from
all that made us as if there were a sundering of all that joined us.<

I concede that there was a spectrum of action and belief ranging from My Three Sons all the way to Carradine's Kung Fu - with perhaps the drug-spangled chaos of Hunter Thompson forming a third corner on the triangle! I do not seek to trivialize or belittle any of this - and I submit to my elder, wiser netsiblings regarding what it really was like back then.
I gravitated toward the extreme or seminal end of the hippie movement, the folks who tried to drive the ethos to its logical conclusion. There is a tragic element in this in that it disengaged them from society as a whole. I realize that the war and the general social angst of the era muddied things tremendously - but I'm wondering out loud if the basic idea of the hippie movement had a sort of failure preprogrammed into it. "Ruleless relating", along with an agrarian simplism reminiscent of Gandhi's spinning wheel economy. A good bit of this has been retooled into the Earth First/ vegilante ethos.
The many personal stories here today serve to advise me that the adaptation of the broad multifarious concepts and derivations of hippie thought and deed have shaped an entire generation. Perhaps these people tell of the partial synthesis of Establishment status quo with the more usable and aesthetically engaging hippie concepts. A lively hybrid that suffered tremendously in the dry climate of the Me Decade, the inheritance of my generation.
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