[MD] Barbarians & Hippies

[ian glendinning]

Hi all,

That "soup of sentiments" quote - I'm glad to see the positive spin
from DMB and Ant - I also always saw it as a statement of the problem
MoQ was addressing - how to turn that soup into something meaningful
and useful. ie Pirsig was not saying "hippies were wrong" he was
saying the hippies had a problem turning their ideas into practice,
and here's why. The idea of what was "reasonable" was the problem -
still is.

BTW - I'm 50, but consider myself too young to have been a hippie
being 11/12 at the time. Several of my friends had older siblings who
seemed to be seriously into it (if dress and haircuts, and
anti-Vietnam demos in Grosvenor square were anything to go by). For
the following 10 years I was a student catching up with psychedelia,
long hair (to my waist if I bent my head far enough backwards) and the
London rock scene.

Having got into what is "reasonable" about moral ideas, I have to say
I've gone the other way from DMB. I sport a close-cropped head these
days - just to confuse the buggers.

Ian