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

[Carl Remick]

>From: ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org>
>
>... In his autobiography, "Killing Time", the philosopher Paul Feyerabend
>hopes that all that is remembered and remains of him is not some
>philosophical declarations and technical papers, but 'love', that which
>he finds the most worthwhile and meaning-giving in his life (and I would
>include friendship, community, kindness, caring). Not platitudes or
>touchy-feely stuff, but that which we are born with before our Cartesian
>speculation can take wing -- that "brotherhood of man" which is "no mere
>phrase" "but a fact of life" (*).
>
>That is what the 'hippies', at their best, embodied to me and taught me
>In short: "Don't be hatin" ;-). And I am glad that before I saw anything
>or anyone else from/of the West, I met with the hippies.

That's a beautiful tribute, Ravi.  I don't understand the point of beating 
up on hippies.  What's wrong with the world today is triumphal capitalism, 
militarism, imperialism -- none of which can be ascribed to any delusions or 
excesses of the hippies.

Carl