[MD] Barbarians & Hippies

[Platt Holden]

> Platt asked Arlo:
> 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?

DMB answered:
> They (hippies) were serious about peace, rights
> and freedom. They wanted the culture to be more beautiful and less cruel
> in all sorts of ways. (parens added)

I had to laugh at the similarity between DMB's answer and Pirsig's 
description of 60's intellectuals:

"What passed for morality within this crowd was a kind of vague, 
amorphous soup of sentiments known as "human rights." You were also 
supposed to be "reasonable." What these terms really meant was never 
spelled out in any way that Phaedrus had ever heard. You were just 
supposed to cheer for them." (Lila, 24)

I have yet to hear an answer to my question from Arlo, DMB or anybody 
else other than a "vague amorphous soup of sentiments" that we're 
supposed to cheer for.

Platt