"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On 07 Oct 2003 20:28:37 GMT, (JDavis1277) wrote:
In New Mexico where I was raised we certainly knew who and what hippies were
and we had a bunch of them. I never met one that I didn't like.
They were easy to catagorize by dress, language, mannerisms, life style, and
drug use.
I suppose there were no beatnicks?
Butch
To illustrate how goofy this can get...... using dress, language,
mannerisms, life style, and drug use as a predictor, how would you
categorize Rush Limbaugh?
Thirty-five years ago most "Hippies" called themselves "freaks"
because of the way people who were quick to "categorize" looked at
them....
If I understand you correctly, then we agree. Just because a person had long hair and
wore ragged jeans did not mean they were a bad person. Unfortunately though, some
chose to see it that way.
Even today kids rebel against society. It can be in the way they dress, the music they
listen to or the way they wear their hair. In the end the vast majority grow out of
it, become part of the society they protest against and go to lead constructive lives.
Such is the case with the beatniks, the greasers, the hippies and the head bangers of
today.