VLVL(6) Ch 11 Commentary

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Jeremy Osner wrote:

> Peter Petto wrote:
> > I'm a little confused about the surfers at The College of the Surf. They
> > seem to be a group distinct from the students. Why is the place naming a
> > plaza and a lab after Dewey Weber and Greg Noll, if it finds surfer culture
> > to be so seedy?
> > 
> 
> Here's an idea: The College of the Surf is an early example of
> the 60's kounterkultur being koopted. The developers begind TCotS
> like the romantic image of surferdom (like say, the republicans
> like the Beach Boys) but not the seedy surfers.

Or possibly a nuther case of, what does Steve W call it, hysteron
proteron, where the effect of the "raised consciousness" precedes the
cause. We do know that there are miraculous things going on--to wit the
loaves and the fishes.
		P.