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

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (33502)	3/29/1999 7:17:00 PM
From: Nuni	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Now, Alex, I've known you since you were almost in (SI} diapers. And I can tell you that I was right smack in the middle of the hippie era, and we all had our hippie ways way back then. One didn't "try to get out of the system" necessarily, but we might have wanted to at times or even felt forced into it by the political climate. Mostly we didn't. It was an incredibly chaotic period in my life. Ask Penni and Christine; I think they'll agree with me. And I'll bet George, Jr. does too. Diane

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (33502)	3/29/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: PiMac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

LRRepeat:<<Having "some hippie ways" and outright dropping out are like night and day imho. I don't count someone as a hippie unless he or she actually tried to get out of the system.>> Hippies were the visible tip of an iceberg of revolution that would've changed the world-wide culture. What is the tip-off to a revolutionary? The clothes? The geography? The job? The companions? The actions? No! These are clues, but it was the attitude...questioning Why and supporting Why Not. Later, after making some answers for oneself, did the vanguard begin to act differently. The younger and rearguard was making similar decisions and improving on the first wave, when "Greetings, The United States Army..." The era was destroyed. The pieces are fragments, buried, lodged in historical safekeeping and fading memories. You read the Official version of the Nez Pierce campaign. Much happened before they broke camp. Much happened along the way. The Indians were ragtag, so were the hippies, so was Washigton at Valley Forge. Hippies had jobs to support their families. Jobs were scarce for those who took little heirarcical BS. Communes were one. Yet they carried a wide family with little income. Other priorities counted more. Not instead, just more. Other priotities--this was the revolution. And now, the other priorities are eclipsed so badly in the backlash as to disappear.