Reagan, Hippies, Hearses, Neil Young

[Carvill John]

RObin said:
 
<<I remember, back in 1980, while I was living on the lot of the NorthernRenaissance Faire in Novato CA [the southern edge of "Vineland"] a"hippie" musician who voted for Reagan. The problem went deeperthan just stoner's sloth. >>
 
Appropriately enough - what with all the Neil Young/hearse/Beach Boys/Long May You Run/Walk On stuff orbiting the IV cover - someone once considered an archetypal 60s hippie, Neil Young, once (infamously) spoke out in support of Reagan. But then he's long been a chronic political flip-flopper, still is: supporting the PATRIOT act, then calling to Impeach Bush....
 
And it wasn't stoners' sloth that brought about the Reagan years: as Pynchon himself wrote in his Seven Deadly Sins essay, it was the wider population. Zoyd isn't as politically motivated as the damily he married into, but if the general population in the US had been on Zoyd's (albeit somewhat latent) political wavelength, Reagan would probably be best remembered today, if at all, as a B movie actor.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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