SLSL Succession of the Criminally Insane (was Has anyone seen a Pynchon book lately?)

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 7 15:24:15 CST 2003


--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> It was noted that the sixties was in many ways profoundly conservative, even
narrow-minded; those for whom the sixties is best remembered (radicals,
hippies) were harshly judgemental of  everyone who didn't look and think as
they did.  One had merely to be too old (the cut-off being thirty!) or
short-haired or like the wrong music to be written off. 

Of course there's a certain amount of truth in this, but a cultural war  was
essentially going on, a revolution of sorts.  And it is typical (and
understadable for those who feell besieged) for revolutionaries to declare
"You're either with us, or you're against us."

David Morris

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