Sixties futility

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I find myself nagging my 16-year-old son to get a haircut so I can see his beautiful eyes.  I've pointed out to him that long, messy hair, without the counterculture element, is simply long, messy hair.  Lots of those hippie guys back then kept their hair brushed and out of their eyes via headbands.  At least we listen to the same music.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 10, 2009 10:12 AM
>To: 'Pynchon Liste' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: RE: Sixties futility
>
>Without a doubt, Otto, but we also need to remember the long-term cooptation
>of many hippies/yippies/freaks.  Jerry Rubin, for example, ended up a
>"businessman." 
>
>Pynch-Lit and life are not black and white, either/or.   Many short-hairs
>were more actively opposed to the war than many long-hair poseurs.  FWIW, of
>the Chicago 7, only Rubin and David Dellinger attended Abbie Hoffman's
>funeral.
>
>Henry Mu
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Otto
>Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 9:50 AM
>To: Pynchon Liste
>Subject: Sixties futility
>
>Still the better choice compared to burning Vietnamese peasants.
>
>2009/4/10 Henry Mu:
>> We shouldn't confuse/conflate '60's actual with virtual/media '60's.
>> Vineland interposes the media take with what appears to be experiential
>> dark, light, and gray sides.  It wasn't all Life Magazine.  Most long-hair
>> "hippies" were just long-hair pot-smokers looking for "free love."
>>
>> Henry Mu
>> http://www.shoutcast.com/shoutcast_player?stationid=109516 
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