Well, first for the "drop out" part... Yeah, but for the true-est ogf hippies it was drop out of a way of thinking or set of values (or lack thereof) that the establishmnet had programed into its popoluation... I think make on all the anit war protest and civil rights protests and community organizing and don't see that as dropping out... Yet it were the true hippies that were doing this... But more importantly, it's not what we did in thre 60's but what we have done since... Lots of us didn't buy into the establishment model... And those who did really didn't get the drop out part of the movement...

I'd like to say that there are many of use who have been true to our dropped outed-ness in the career choices we've made, the way we conduct ourselves, the way that we still get involved in trying to make the world a little better (even if it's in our own neighborhood) and yet maintain the courage to speak up when racism or injustice rears its ugly head...

I'm not going review my own life here (but many of you all know some of the things I have done and continue to do but) can say that I'd like to think myself as one who has stayed dropped out in an activist way...

Bobert