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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (191734)	6/16/2012 1:33:42 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543766

<< do get you didn't like his actions against the students, who, after all, weren't going to class and threatening to shut down the University. This, I think was in response to the Government's policies with regard to the Vn War and the DRAFT which caused most of the protests. Ergo--DRAFT=POLITCAL INVOLVEMENT.>> The 60's wasn't about Vietnam or the draft, or civil rights or free speech. It was the largest existential movement in the history of mankind; and that is what Raygun didn't understand or like. We hippies were trying to move the US into the 21st century. But as Bob Dylan said: "Something is happening here and you don't know what it is, do you Mr Raygun.? So he lashed out at the hippies who the right wing saw as dirty loafers. Never mind that the head quarters was UC Berkeley, the top university in the world with the smartest kids. Kids who understood existentialism was the philosophy of the future. And the hippies were generally the smartest kids in all the universities of the time.