[MD] Barbarians & Hippies

[Platt Holden]

Arlo wrote:
> I would also earnestly like to see a secular, liberal "hippie" movement
> in the Middle East. But, I would also earnestly like to see it here too.
> But given the recent "redefinition" of patriot to be one of "blind,
> uncritical allegience to the state", any such movement, here or there,
> will meet with so much right-wing resistence as being "unpatriotic" or
> "traitorous" that it will have to really dig deep to find strength. My
> hope is that it can. But these days I am more a cynic. Maybe in the next
> generation, which will see the devastating results of this piss-off.
> There is where my real hope lies.

I have yet to hear what a new "liberal hippie movement" would be like. 
Would it entail living in communes, having group sex and adopting the 
drug culture of its predecessor? Would its followers forego bathing, 
wear rags and grow beards? Would its political statements consist of 
rioting, destroying property and defying the "pigs." Would the women 
parade around in T-shirts and no bras saying "Make love not war?" I 
mean, could you give us some idea of what we might expect from turning 
the clock back to the 60's to abstract what was right?

Platt