Zoyd

John Carvill johncarvill at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 08:39:36 CDT 2009


> No matter what we attribute the "failure" of the sixties to, the fact is, there was something -- a spirit, an ideology, an idealism - to fail.  Successive generations have brought us the Me Decade, nihilistic punk rock, sexist and materialistic rap music, rampant get-ahead yuppie-ism, the dot-com "revolution, and, at best, a fleeting (apparently disintegrated now) Obama-worship movement.  Why are we so harsh towards those in the sixties who at least thought about what an ideal society might look like?  They failed?  Well, who's succeeded?

Those who are harsh towards the Sixties movements, and who seek to
find blame only within those moveemts, have a political agenda.

But I think we've sort of come full circle here, in as much as T's
original assertions are concerned. We have established:

(a) Zoyd was not a snitch; and
(b) Zoyd is a likable charcater, portrayed in a sympathetic light.




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