GRGR: Re: Slogans of the sixties

[Doug Millison]

At 3:15 AM -0400 8/18/99, Paul Mackin wrote:
>It might be fun to recall some of the slogans of the sixties.

The Mai '68 slogans of the youth revolt in Paris were also pretty cool.
Here are a few with my rough translations:

"Prenez vos désirs pour la réalité." (Consider your dreams reality.)
"Ne travaillez jamais." (Don't ever work.)
"Ni robot ni esclave." (Neither robot nor slave.)
"Baisez-vous les uns les autres sinon ils vous baiseront." (Make love to
each other because if you don't They will fuck you.)
"La forêt précède l'homme, le désert le suit." (The forest comes before
humankind, the desert follows -- I like the Pynchonian echoes.)
"Je décrète l'état de bonheur permanent." (I decree a state of permanent
happiness.)
"Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible." (Be realistic, demand the
impossible.)
"La jeunesse est une ivresse éternelle. C'est la fièvre de la raison."
(Youth is eternal intoxication, the fever of reason.)
"La révolution combat aussi pour la beauté. Aidez-nous pour chasser la
laideur du monde." (The revolution also fights for beauty. Help erase
ugliness from the world.)
"L'alcool tue. Prenez du LSD." (Alcohol kills, take LSD.)
 "Sous le pavé, la plage." (Re the cobblestones that became weapons in the
hands of rioters, pick one up and you find the beach.)

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