IVIV parody?

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 03:14:27 CDT 2009


 Joseph Tracy  wrote:
> I guess I don't think of Manson as a hippie any more than I think of Jim
> Jones as a Christian or Myer Lansky as a Jewish Idealogue.   Also most
> idealists I know are not crazed, just you know, idealistic. I do like the
> "who is?" question and agree that Doc is plausible as is.

but a lot of people when they think of hippies think of Manson.
Or when I mention that I've always wanted to live on a commune,
they immediately think of Jim Jones.
(now a couple years ago I would've ranted about false flag operations
and how well they worked...but never mind...)

I have the same problem explaining my sympathy to anarchism:
first thing anybody thinks of is bombs.  A few bad apples...




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