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Thread #76935 Message #1367735
Posted By: Rapparee
30-Dec-04 - 10:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is 60s Hippie Worshipping a Religion?
Subject: RE: BS: Is 60s Hippie Worshipping a Religion?
Gee, I was a lower-middle class kid (at best) during the '60s. I didn't dance to the Dead, I didn't fuck my brains out, and I partly paid for college by being in the National Guard. I also worked on college work-study, made and set tombstones, assistant-managed a bookstore, helped deliver milk, did inventory for stores, and other such things.
Didn't make me a conservative, didn't make me a liberal. It did make me care about the folks who sweat when they work, the folks who only ask for a fair shake, the enlisted people in the military, and others like these.
I've always felt that the "hippies" were really an invention of the media.