As author of the uncompromised Port Heron Statement,

[SmokeytheBuddha]

the Dude was the progenitor of "the '60s" described here:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3805/in_defense_of_the_60s/

Well, I know there's no literal connection...

[forumdude]

the Dude was the progenitor of "the '60s" described here:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3805/in_defense_of_the_60s/

Well, I know there's no literal connection...

Well done. That article really wraps her all up. Ties the whole political arc of the Dude's life together. The last frontier of our civilization remains: our vaguely-imagined pursuit of happiness. Expressed honorably in the lifestyle and attitudes of the man for our time - El Duderino. I'm sure he'd have a lot to say about life and liberty as well.

[Dude1967]

the Dude was the progenitor of "the '60s" described here:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3805/in_defense_of_the_60s/

Well, I know there's no literal connection...

SmokeytheBuddha- there may not be a literal connection, but at least its an ethos

[SmokeytheBuddha]

Is it some kind of Eastern thing? 

[Dude1967]

Is it some kind of Eastern thing? 

Far from it

[brandt]

Simply put...FAR OUT!

[Dude1967]

 Fuck that!  I love you, Walter, but sooner or later you're gonna have to face the fact that you're a goddamn moron.

[brandt]

Speed of Sound, tour...bunch of assholes

[Dude1967]

 
Dios mio, man
In the parlance of our times
Don't be fatuous

[brandt]

Tell me about yourself, Jeffrey

[Dude1967]

Tell me about yourself, Jeffrey

Well, uh. . . Not much to tell.

[brandt]

  You didn't think this was all fun and games?

[DigitalBuddha]

the Dude was the progenitor of "the '60s" described here:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3805/in_defense_of_the_60s/

Well, I know there's no literal connection...

Were you listening to the dude's story?

[meekon5]

I actually went in search of the document (see that as a virtual pilgramage)

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary.html

Is quite a good source. With the document here:

attachment:/461/SDS_Port_Huron.html.

Just had to download it for future reading. (Is this my homework?)

[BikerDude]

Right on!
That was very well put. I've never seen that perspective
on the 60's. Less of a movement than as an inevitable clash
between socio economic classes. The eventual choosing of sides
by the "semi privileged youth" who could see there position eroding.

The loyalties of the blue collar, black, poor where without doubt, but
the educated sons and daughters of suburban whites could have gone
either way and when they were left feeling cheated they went "turn coat"
so to speak. Of course it is always dressed in high minded idealism but
as we know people less often choose their ideals than they have them
thrust upon them.

Errr. Sorry lost my train of thought.
Forgot what I was blathering about.