[lbo-talk] hippies (Re: WMT goes orgo)

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Tue Aug 29 21:12:13 PDT 2006


As the son of hippies all I can say is they got a job and a haircut and never let me watch Easy Rider? Haha!

Travis

____________________________________ Travis W Fast Ph.D ABD York University Political Science Toronto, On ----- Original Message ----- From: <info at pulpculture.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:03 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] hippies (Re: WMT goes orgo)


> At 07:15 PM 8/29/2006, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >John, do you have any anthropological hypothesis to explain the
> >excessive concern on this list with that mostly mythological category of
> >"Hippies"? Or is the question one of psychopathology rather than of
> >anthropology?
> >
> >Carrol
>
>
> speaking of which. I wanted to ask. Doug posted that Time article about
the
> hippies, written in 1967 as I recall.
>
> I was wondering about it. In the article, they talk about how hippies were
> a departure from the earlier work of the new left.
>
> For those of you around at the time, part of the New Left, what did you
> think about what was going on? Did you feel the hippies were a problem?
> Join on board?
>
> Just curious.
>
>
>
>
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