TRTR and TRP So I digress & "........., the beach"

[Michael Bailey]

undaunted by previous attempts to deconstruct the hippie mythos,
I wonder if the "outdoor" thing is the McGuffin - so many jobs are
indoors, and so many people are incompletely fulfilled, or even
completely unfulfilled, by their jobs

- that connection with the earth and sky, being out in the weather -
is that what is felt as missing in many cases?



On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Charles Reich in "The Greening of America" highlights a two-page
> ad in the NYTimes Magazine for March 1969.
>
> Couple, majestic mountains and a beach...................
>
> He, who hates advertising as much as Gaddis, but since it is written 15
> years
> later, shows Gaddis's dissing as more prophetic, more prescient. sez
> that the appeal of this ad to the bored white-collar worker is
>
> The Hippie appeal.........that cannot be realized by workers caught in the
> System..