Well, I could manage to read a page or so of this, then thought, Wow, sad. talk
about going off the rails, about a once-promising moment turned pathetically
irrelevant. I can't see the "anti-authoritarian" clashes with police as terribly
relevant to today's grinding problems, sorry. There's a 'libertarianism,' a
leave-me-alone-ness, a 'do-your-own-thing' side of this strain that goes back well
into the 60s that is entirely compatible with the system and its increasing
destruction of human lives, our communities, and our globe.
I guess at one level, I can't and don't knock anyone for a choice of lifestyle that
doesn't directly harm anyone else or the ecosphere, etc. But (a) there's nothing
politically radical or significantly oppositional about this, and (b) it has the
ultimate effect of not intelligently engaging in trying to change a system that is,
in brutal fact, harming millions of people and eroding the ability of the planet to
sustain life. Recall the old aphorism, "If you're not part of the solution, you're
part of the problem." I still believe that, difficult as it is to work it out in
practice.
I wonder what others feel, how others view this -and I know there are some 'aging
hippies' who've been on the list in the past; I don't know if they are still.
Ted Morgan
radman wrote:
> Take Me to Your Leader
>
> <http://www.reason.com:80/0102/fe.sm.take.html>
>
> A huge annual gathering of hippies freaks out the National Forest Service
> By Sam MacDonald
> REASON * February 2001
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Feb 03 2001 - 19:32:02 EST