> I remember feeling very ambilavent about the relationship of Woodstock
> and the counter-cultural movement to the anti-war movement. It was
As a counter-cultural, I felt equally ambivalent about the politicos.
Sure I was on their side, but they seemed to go about things in the same
power-trip way as those they opposed.
> I recall consciously choosing not to go to Woodstock, because I felt
> it would be closed to serious anti-war recruiting. I may have been a
> bit doctrinaire in that, but the initial commercial thrust of Woodstock
> was a terrible turnoff to us hard-ass politicos as well as anti-commercial
> counter-culturalists....
Yeah--I didn't want to hang out with those that the ads were aimed at.
>
> Peace,
>
> Andy Berman, age 48 3/4
>
-jim, age 50
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