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...
Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on August 05, 2008, 11:51:19 AM
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.
Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on August 05, 2008, 11:51:19 AM
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
Is it some kind of Eastern thing? ;)
Simply put...FAR OUT!
Fuck that! I love you, Walter, but sooner or later you're gonna have to face the fact that you're a goddamn moron.
Speed of Sound, tour...bunch of assholes
Dios mio, man
In the parlance of our times
Don't be fatuous
Tell me about yourself, Jeffrey
Quote from: brandt on August 13, 2008, 10:45:35 AM
Tell me about yourself, Jeffrey
Well, uh. . . Not much to tell.
::) You didn't think this was all fun and games? ::)
Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on August 05, 2008, 11:51:19 AM
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?
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 (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 (http://attachment:/461/SDS_Port_Huron.html).
Just had to download it for future reading. (Is this my homework?)
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.
Biker, I hear what you are sayin' I can continue if you please
the 60's, the late 60's had all what this Peter Marcuse is saying and more.
The real privileged left office in 1967, as the 2nd Kennedy dies. Peter's viewpoint leaves a bit of that out, but that's just like his opinion man.
Peter tells us a lot, and its a darn good read. But the rest of what was going on, businesses launching like big Pharma, world economy changing, the imaginations of millions of young people sparked by an adventure to the moon, that was the bulk of the series.
So this is nice but if we EVER want to make real change, and I mean change notable in our lifetimes (and in English), beyond pacifism, beyond "take it easy" you know, Sir?
Sorry lost my train of thought there.
Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on August 05, 2008, 11:51:19 AM
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...
And dude, Heron is not the correct nomenclature, Huron, Please