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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