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To: sageyrain who wrote (79224)	5/19/2008 10:06:33 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

sageyrain: "This is a very vague statement, not sure what you mean here. My interpretation presently is that the vast majority of people look at the hippie era with a mild sense of nostalgia (except maybe those who were of parental age during that era). I don't know anybody in my social circle that looks back on them as a product of a conspiracy, communist or otherwise. I think a majority see them as a somewhat wreckless, but idealistically driven group. Is this wrong? "I was there from the very beginning and saw it." It would be very interesting to have sort of a summary timeline of your memories of that time. Maybe you have posted such elsewhere." koan: I joined the revolution almost from day one. Spent many weekends in the Haight. I talk a bit about it below with my friend onepath: warning it is a bit racy-lol. Message 24602844 Reckless/idealistic? You mean the silly intellectual lightweights like Bertrand Russell and John Gailbraith, and a zillion other intellectuals of the time. A great story: One of my heros was Eric Hoffer who wrote the True Believers. He had a syndicated column that ran in many papers across the country. In the beginning he critisized the hippies, then he figured out what they were talking about and admittd he had been wrong and like socrates was so committed to "the truth" that he after admitting he had misunderstood what the hippie movement was he stopped writing his columns. How you can dismiss the metamorphases that took place in the 60's from dogmatic cultures to cultures which encourage each and ever person to follow their dreams and manifest their destiny escapes me. And I would hardly characterize the kids at berkeley as silly. They were the best and the brightest in the country. The best minds we had!!