"Fun Was Actually Becoming Quite Subversive" (Molly Hite)

[Joseph Tracy]

Awesome person, Rustin. Grew up as a quaker, which is how I first heard of him. Real heroes don’t get adopted by the media. They don’t tow the party line. 
Speaking recently on list of subversive humor, has anyone seen the documentary about Wavy Gravy?Saint Misbehaving. There was a lot to the guy, beat up in anti-war demonstrations, comedy for truth, devoted spiritual practice, fundraising for good causes with musicians,started the Hog Farm commune, SEVA, ran a summer camp for kids to learn clowning up in northern California near Vineland territory.  

> On Apr 1, 2016, at 8:13 AM, Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Bayard Rustin comes to mind
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> Rich
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>> On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:10 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>> So who are some mythic figures of change or inspiration for you? 
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>>> On Mar 31, 2016, at 1:46 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> an undermining of our inherited ways of looking at WW2 and thus of many other issues
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>>> Very much so, in my case. My WWII Marine parents were too temperamentally skeptical and contrarian to be "gung ho" about either WWII or the Cold War, but I still grew up more or less within the mainstream, triumphal consensus: "Our Great Democracy saved the world in the Good War." The civil-rights movement, Dr. Strangelove, Viet Nam, Nixon -- and yeah, sex&drugs&rock&roll -- took off the shine and opened some cracks, as did steady reading of modern history. But GR came in like a barrage from a dozen unexpected angles, screaming, unstoppable, hilarious, and opened the cracks into chasms that no amount of "It's morning in America!" <tm Ronald Reagan and Hal Riney> would ever close. .   
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>>> true for many of us here, but not for the country as a whole, or its culture. Reagan the myth continues to have resonance, for example--nothing on the left comes close. why is that?  
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