geeks

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Wed Sep 20 12:23:24 PDT 2000


since hippies were never especially radical and since they quickly were co-opted then this ain't doing much for your case. it's not likely that the other branch of hippies will fare much differently. hippies were, ultimately, rather mainstream and so are hackers/geeks/wotevAyawannacallem

look at max, he used to be a hippie AND a trot!


>however, there are whole host of political attitudes represented
>in geekdom. it is commonly said that the hippie tradition
>split into two directions: one which experimented with communal
>living and the other which experimented with bytes. the latter
>blended perfectly into the pre-existing hacker ethos. kelley
>may have gotten into this before, but the hacker ethos has been
>explained as something basicly antibureaucratic and democratic
>in spirit, believing that:



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