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

[Monte Davis]

> that childish yearning for harmless utopias

Or harmful utopias. On the most radical smash-the-System day of my life, my
jaw still dropped to see people studying Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book" and
extolling China's bottom-up communitarianism. Not that they were very
numerous or influential... not that I bought Washington's "we must confront
the Reds everywhere, and spy on / subvert any Americans who disagree"...
but jeez, you had to be willfully ignorant, and totally drunk on "the enemy
of my enemy" to boot, to see China from the Great Leap Forward through the
Cultural Revolution as anything but a horrific tragedy.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:12 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> i think there is a fair amount of resentment by the younger generations
> for the boomers having their cake and eating it too, at least in the US,
> leaving them with fewer options and less than generous retirement prospects
> its exactly that childish yearning for harmless utopias that made much of
> the hippie left fairly insufferable people
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The exact quote originated from the testimony of Abbie Hoffman and reads
>> “fun was very important… it was a direct rebuttal of the kind of ethics and
>> morals that were being put forth in the country to keep people working in a
>> rate race.”
>>
>> The exact quote, of course, has "rat race." RIP A. Hoffman.
>>
>>
>
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