on 60s hippiedom, from a Village Voice review of Across the Universe

[Henry]

I spent today in Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA, trying to help Democrats
to help themselves by not nominating the unelectable to run against the dark
side of the force.  
http://my.barackobama.com/page/contact/splash/callwestvirginia 

If Jonah is in the USA, I hope that he's not wasting his life, and I hope
that he's not wasting his vote.  Hillary would bring out more votes from the
right than another 11 November, and until they get their act together, a
vote for the Greens (or Nader) in the USA is bullet that could have been
used for better purposes than irrational symbolic suicide a la Jonestown.  

HENRY MUSIKAR
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm 

From: Mark Kohut

Except that: We need much more, so rent the best account I've seen of the
hopes and fears of that twitchy, narcissistic, wonderfully high-minded
time-Alain Tanner's quiet little 1976 Swiss movie Jonah, Who Will be 25 in
the year 2000, whose disappointed hippies pin their hopes for the future on
a little boy born into their failed commune. Wherever he is, Jonah has hit
32, and if he's not selling roach clips on Telegraph Avenue or something
ineffably sad like that, I like to think he's joined the Greens, thus
ensuring that his parents' great adventure will not, as it were, have gone
to pot.