Easy Rider

[Dennis Miller]

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 LBernier at tribune.com wrote:
> You know man, they BLEW it - their life doesn't mean anything at the end - just 
> a couple of dopers selling dope so they can ride the highways of America having 
> a "good time" - their whole generation, sold out for a cheap high.  They can't 
> break out of the system, just like those hippies at the commune were all going 
> to starve to death unless they give it up and get jobs.  The system wins, cause 
> the system doesn't care if they live or die.

     No, the hippies are "gonna make it."  Because they live off the land,
off the earth, which, we are previously told, is a very special thing.
There the people- especially the women- are free. But the pair push on to
New Orleans, where the women are expensive and imprisoned between the
stones.  Like everyone in the city.  In any city.
     In other words, it's all straight sixties hippie-ism.

Dennis Miller