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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PiMac who wrote (33457)	3/29/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

PiMac, it's always a pleasure to read your posts. You post thought-provoking subject matter using a commendably evenhanded tone of keyboard. About the hippies - I never considered them to be onto anything really important. I tended to dismiss them as a reactive culture, one that lost its cohesion once the "establishment" society against which it drew its power mutated. The idea of "ruleless relating" is something that imho does not scale well outside the small communal group wherein everybody knows everybody else. Steven Rogers posted some cogent parallel ideas relating to tribal/village life. Taking this holistic self-governance into a larger group fails. Perhaps anonymity allows a more predatory ethic - folks won't steal from somebody they know,but stealing from somebody they don't know is often sublimated as a diffuse act of revolution, od "sticking it to the man". These are just ramblings - mothing definite or passionate. More later on hippies and drugs - I believe that a subset of drug was at the very heart of the power of the hippie way[s].