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

[Mark Kohut]

Richard Ryan: 
Interesting.  We could cross-connect the "indoors" and the "outdoors"
to the "role self" and the "true self" - who we are "inside" only
becomes apparent when we are "outside;" "indoors" we are all surface.
 
 yes, right in keeping
The book is FULL of the concept of 'true self', inner self vs. Not----
with even lists--some items corny, very ambiguous, very able to
be disagreed with, yet many felt to surely be true than and now
 and arguments about our shallow, lost selves.
 
Quite a partial gloss on some of TR's themes. 
 
P.S. Seems that a major vision of Reich's is that familiar literary-historical one
of a village, small town community, agrarian, of extended families but nuclear-based,
full of neighbors we all know and work out how to live with and with work and play that
connects us to nature and to each other. 
 
 
 
 
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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..
>
>
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