Frenesi

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: <Bandwraith at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: Frenesi


>
> In a message dated 1/4/04 5:11:33 PM, tobylevy at juno.com writes:
>
> << And I wish to Briefly respond to Bandwraith's comment that "Hippie-dom
> would have been equally as  marginalized except for several important
> events- the acceleration of the civil rights movement, and, Martin Luther
> King's courageous anti-war stand."
>
> As one who lived through those days I can tell you that most of the
> hippies had no clue who Martin Luther King was.  All they knew was that
> government wanted to draft them and put them in a country where people
> wanted to kill them.  It was self defense that built the antiwar movement
> and it was the end of widespread hostilities and the scaling down of the
> draft that ended the movement >>
>
> Hi Toby-
>
> "As one who lived through those days I can tell you that..."
>
> The standard mainstream media's flip put down has been:
>
>     "And you remember it ?"
>
> Unfortunately, in your case, its seems, drugs may not have
> been necessary to induce amnesia. Everybody knew who MLK Jr.
> was. You must have been hibernating. But the point is, and
> perhaps you're the exception that proves the rule, the main-
> stream media has focused in on the burnt out stoned hippie freak,
> packaged that image according to right wing revisionist standards
> and sold it right along with  Nestles and Fruit Loops for mass
> consumption.
>
> respectfully
>

Right, even children in foreign countries (like Germany) knew who MLK was
when he was shot; they knew that America treated its black population unfair
and was fighting a neo-colonialist war in the Far East.

Making the 60's social movements responsible for the mess America has been
in *after* the Vietnam War is on the neo-con agenda.

Otto

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http://www.bushin30seconds.org/