I was only a young kid at the time, but I do remember the whole media frenzy that took place over the so-called "hippies." Probably, the best of a bad lot was Joan Didion's essay, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem."
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Jim F.
---------- Original Message ---------- From: shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: [lbo-talk] hippies reduxie (was: "Doing History Backward") Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:30:36 -0400
At 10:00 PM 4/8/2009, Carrol Cox wrote:
> And as contemptuous as I was of them then, and now, I suspect
>that even the so-called "hippies" were part of the needed mix.
>Carrol
didn't we have a discussion once about how the "hippies" with their lack of ideas, etc. was a construction of the mass media, in particular it started with a Time or Newsweek article?
Yes, why yes, we did. Michael Smith mentioned it as a media construction and you confirmed it. Doug posted the actual article to the list and thought it hilarious.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,899555-1,00.html
Michael's post: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-August/016640.html
my question: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-August/016639.html
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