Easy Rider

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Thu Feb 13 11:29:11 CST 1997


Dennis Miller sez

>     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.

Just to keep the historical perspective in gear, I must point out that 
hippies (I was one) didn't invent these ideologies; they are part of a 
centuries-old tradition.  Nor did they die out with the hippie movement.


Cheers,
David




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