VLVL(6) - The Children of the 60's

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Interesting discussion.  I'm w/ the Morrisian camp,
and will go further, following Chomsky to say that there's almost an agenda
in mainstream US culture, certainly its media, to deny the long lasting 
effects of the sixties.  Would there be Roe v. Wade without all those
kids (ah, me, are we talking in the third person now?)
so eagerly getting laid all over the place?

Somebody on the radio describing Congressman Bob Barr --
and if you're not watching the hearings, don't blame me when they
come for you in the night, and tell me, BTW,
have you ever seen a more frightening human being?--
represents that class of folks who so hate the sixties that they're
trying to return the country to a fifties that
never existed in the first place (in its purest
unadulteryated Pleasantville form--no toilets, no sex organs!!)

j upagainstthewall m
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>Sebastian Dangerfield:
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>>I think that what I'm getting at is that part of the VL project is
>>certainly a de-mythologization of the sixties, telling us that it really
>>wasn't all about the War . . . that the sixties was the outhouse of the
>>postwar soul...  [snip] ...that vanity of vanities sayeth the preacher,
>>all is vanity . . .


David Morris
>Try to imagine our present without that past.  Far from vain, the 
>revolution won many battles.  The hemorrhage in Vietnam was stopped. 
> Tricky Dick was booted.  Many prohibitions were swept out the door as it 
>was opened to let in so many new possibilities. 

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