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DUmmie FUnnies 01-18-05 ("Doncha miss all the old '60's radicals/activists?")
DUmmie FUnnies ^ | January 18, 2005 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

Posted on 01/18/2005 5:54:45 AM PST by PJ-Comix

In this DUmmie THREAD titled, “Doncha miss all the old '60's radicals/activists?” we hit the bong pipe and take a walk down memory lane to the Age of Aquarius. Most folks look back on the old ‘60s radicals/activists as somewhat ridiculous at best but to the DUmmies they are noble heroes. Let us now take a look at this blast from the past. As usual the DUmmie mantra chantings are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, fingering his love beads, are in the [brackets]:

Doncha miss all the old '60's radicals/activists? Chicago 7, Black Panthers, Weathermen, AIM, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and such. Please don't tell me they are all conservative republicans now.

[Yes. We have such nostalgia for Weathermen terrorism. They were like the Al Qaeda of the 60s.]

I miss the hippie days--peace love and rock n roll and drugs...can't forget the drugs. Acid anyone?

[You might have forgotten the drugs but the drugs haven’t forgotten you since you are on a permanent acid trip.]

Today they'd call 'em terrorists and haul 'em off to Gitmo.

[Um….when you blow up buildings you do tend to get called terrorists nowadays. Back then they were just called “Weathermen.”]

Does Anyone Remember When "Weather Underground" didn't have ..anything to do with the weather or computers?

[They were more to do with bombs.]

I wasn't a "Weatherman" because they quickly descended into random acts of violence.

[You prefer your violence to be more organized.]

Gawd how I miss the spirit of those days...I didn't love some of the extremism and violence of those days, but I sure miss the spirit of revolution, the expansiveness and breakthroughs of those times. The commitment to equality and the raising-up of all people. Revolution was in the air and we were bustin' through ALL the boundaries! Mini-skirts and flowers in our long hair, peace beads, Woodstock, The Pill, commonunes, natural foods, and all the rest...

[Granola, the Desdederata, Lava Lamps, Golden Gate Park, Granny Glasses, Peter Max, Earl Scheib….OOPS! Forget the latter.]

I miss the times more and more as OUR times go on. It hurts like hell, and I could easily spend most of my time in tears. I would go back in an instant -- and stay there. Forever. If I could. If I ever decide to loose the bounds of rationality, that'll be my destination. THIS era wouldn't be nearly so difficult for me if it had even some of the hope, idealism and bouyancy of that time, but that's missing, at least from my perspective.

[Such a pity that we didn’t remain a bunch of spaced out hippies.]

You speak for me, also. I've been crying all afternoon and evening - and much of the last 2 and a half years, since the 2002 elections - feeling the repressions of this era. The weight of it is mighty and hope is shrouded in the mists ahead.

[I shall beat out a mournful tambourine tune to grieve for our great loss.]

one reflection i have on those days, however, was that the "hippies" and "yippies" integrated "youth culture" with the political protests ... i remember "conning" people to go to demonstrations with me because their was going to be a great band there or they "always hand out free pot" at these things ...

[Sort of like how big crowds were conned into going to John Kerry rallies by offering free Springsteen concerts.]

It was a movement. A movement of its time, and when it's time passed so did it. The time of its passing was the early 1980's - when the hippies and yippies turned into yuppies and consumerism took over. When so many of the hippies became mainstream, started wearing suits, working on wall street and focued on making a lot of money, buying BMS's and living in up-scale houses.

[And became LOUSY FREEPER TROLLS.]

my "awakening" was rooted in revolution ... we had a vision for the future and it seemed, though it was all too brief, that there was such a large force of collective energy that we couldn't be stopped ...

[That vision for the future called Bolshevism...tinged with acid.]

I think that is what is so dispiriting to me now - the "me, mine" generation of self-centeredness and greed has overtaken the community spirit….. Ah, well.... Thanks for the invite to the PDA group. I stopped by earlier and will check back. Maybe I can scrounge up a few $ to donate to DU so I can post over there.

[The above posted without the least sense of self-irony.]

NONE of us turned into "yuppies". The "yuppies" were an entirely younger generation. "Consumerism" in mainstream never affected us as you imagine. Also, don't equate "hippies" and "yippies". "Yippies" was a word coined by Abby Hoffman when he ran a pig, "Pigasus" for President during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago - which led to the police riots and the Chicago 8 - then Bobby Seale + the Chicago 7 trials. "Hippies" was a media word used to box in young people in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco in 1966. It eventually became a media word to apply to our entire generation, whether we wore tie-died shirts and beads or not. And whether we like it or not. The revolution my generation was involved in and continues to live by was both political, cultural, and personal, and cannot be labeled so simplistically.

[“DUmmies” works just fine.]

Some didn't become yuppies. Let me here define what I mean by the term "yuppie." To me, it specifically refers to a group of people who, in the 80's, shifted their consciousness from trying to make the world a better place to being "me-and-mine" centered, strove join the ranks of mid-to-upper- middle class status, put their priority on climbing the corporate ladder and making money, maade a bunch of designers real happy buying brand-name everything from jeans to baby carriages, cared about "status" items like going to certain resaurants or buying certain brands of car for the status of it, etc. Mostly they were primarily concerned with making money and buying things of "status."

[DIE YUPPIE SCUM!!!]

I was born May 2, 1945. Hitler had just died two days earlier, (although the American press didn't print that news until my birthday) but the bombs had not yet been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Baby boomer" was an expression used to describe the "baby boom" which occurred *after* WWII w

[Hmmm….So could someone be considered a Baby Boomer if he was born on August 14, 1945 when the Japanese agreed to the surrender or could someone only be a Baby Boomer if he was born on or after September 2, 1945 when the Japanese actually signed the terms of surrender on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri?]

I yearn for the spirit of those days to be present in society today, I keep thinking that we desperately need it. I have yet to see massive outrage against the unjustices of today that can coaleasce into such a spirit determined to progress liberty further. I keep looking for it, and I keep waiting for the majority of Americans to wake up and wonder what will take for them to do so.

[There’s always hope if we drop enough acid.]

You know what? If some genie had visited me when I was young and guaranteed me a billion dollars by age 25, a Playboy Playmate of my choice for a wife, and genius kids by age 30 if I just sold out and worked for the likes of Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and the Bush family and voted Republican in every election for the rest of my life...

[I would take that deal in a heartbeat. Oh, and my choice for Playboy Playmate wife would be Petra Verkaik.]

…I'd tell him to get lost and I'll live my life my way... and in retrospect, wouldn't change a thing - not even all the lean years, and there were a lot of them.

[And too bad you ended up with a hag that looks like Rosie O’Donnell.]

I had a similar thought while I was writing the post earlier, something to the effect that your son could be one of the leaders of the next wave of "freedom fighters" in the US.

[“Freedom Fighters?” Let’s not be shy in our use of terminology. Post what you REALLY meant---“Terrorists.”]

My Mom first felt me kick when Pete Townshend kicked. Abbie Hoffman off the stage at Woodstock. LOL! I was born at the end of the age of Aquarius - January 1970.

[It must be a strange experience to look at a crowd photo of Woodstock and trying to figure out which guy is your daddy.]

When the YIPPIES took over the Disneyland Chicken of the Sea pirate ship and unfurled the "Free Mickey Mouse" banners, little did they know that Disney was soooooo CIA'd up.

[That sounds like just a humdrum Gay Day event at Disney World.]

Why is it so hard to get young people involved now?

[Probably because they looked at you and laughed. Then decided to become just the opposite.]

The New Left was an abysmal failure. It was spoiled children whining that they didn't want responsibility for anything. Rather than organize effectively, which was too much like work, they decided to sit around, smoke dope, and just try to shock people.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

I was in the SDS albeit not in the Weatherman faction. I was active in antiwar movement and was an anarchist. (We did not, of course, see eye to eye with the Progressive Labor Party who were all Maoists). In March of 2003 I joined the parade again and marched under the good old black and red anarcho-syndicalist flag.

[God forbid that you ever consider marching under the good old red, white, and blue AMERICAN flag.]

I wish every day that Allen Ginsberg were still alive. To chronicle W and the torture and the fake on terrorism. He'd probably be on a watch list.

[Most likely Ginsberg would be humming mantras at the Disney World Gay Day.]

"When will they ever learn...when will they ever learn?" Where are all the anti-war songs...the silence can be deafening at times. It makes me sad. Where's the outrage?

[So who’s stopping you from downloading those songs to your iPod?]

I am very sorry we have forgotten the lessons learned in the 60's. I am very disappointed in my generation, I thought the future would be better when we were in charge,instead a black cloud has moved in and will never leave. Batman has lost.

[Paradise Lost…. Batman Lost.]


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To: JLS

But the pro-life movement is not the "right" sort of protest, to the DUmmies. And so the involvement of all these kids in that movement don't count.


61 posted on 01/18/2005 7:37:16 AM PST by franksolich (a fronte praecipitum, a tergo lupus)
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To: PJ-Comix
A few highlights of the "Flower" generation:

Drug & Alcohol addiction and overdose

Drug turf wars and killings

Explosion of Sexual disease

Explosion of divorce, abortion and single parent households

Explosion of Suicide Rates

10s of Millions murdered in Soviet Union, China, Vietnam & Cambodia, all hippie Utopias

We were wrong and we can never say sorry enough for the pain & death we caused around this Country and the World.

Pray for W and Our Troops

62 posted on 01/18/2005 7:41:43 AM PST by bray (The Rather-hate Scandal was to support Michael Maroon's Fraudumentary!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Chicago 7, Black Panthers, Weathermen, AIM, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman...

How could they leave out Patty Hearst and the SLA?

63 posted on 01/18/2005 8:09:37 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: PJ-Comix
It was a movement.

And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar. With feeling.

Groovy man...

64 posted on 01/18/2005 8:09:37 AM PST by jellybean (Free Ol' Crusty!)
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To: franksolich
Also, the DUmmies are upset that Target, of all companies, is having really big special sales on Thursday.

Really? I might just have to wander into Target on Thursday and reward them.

65 posted on 01/18/2005 8:12:03 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: PJ-Comix
Gawd how I miss the spirit of those days...I didn't love some of the extremism and violence of those days, but I sure miss the spirit of revolution, the expansiveness and breakthroughs of those times. The commitment to equality and the raising-up of all people. Revolution was in the air and we were bustin' through ALL the boundaries! Mini-skirts and flowers in our long hair, peace beads, Woodstock, The Pill, commonunes, natural foods, and all the rest...

Ah, yes -- I believe those were the days Howard Dean fondly recalled during the primaries, "when the country was united . . ."

66 posted on 01/18/2005 8:13:35 AM PST by maryz
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To: PJ-Comix

I'm a babyboomer too. I knew a couple of druggies into the hippie lifestyle for the drugs and sex. They had no ideals and were self-serving. I think the most telling thing I ever heard about that era was George Harrison saying that he went to Haight-Ashbury because he'd heard about the "Revolution" and all he found was a bunch of dirty, strung out people. His conclusion was it was all hype and no substance.


67 posted on 01/18/2005 8:14:32 AM PST by DJ MacWoW ("Spare me your 6th grade Michael Moore logic" Sec'y Defense Heller on 24)
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To: franksolich
during a DUmmie discussion of "Not a Damned Dime Day,"

A local talk show (conservative) had one Jesse Gordon (?) and some woman on today talking about this. (They have a website notonedamndime.com. You can sign a petition and everything!)

The woman said they have 10,000 members nationwide. Let's see, what percent is that of 280,000,000+ people?

68 posted on 01/18/2005 8:20:09 AM PST by maryz
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To: PJ-Comix
Well, I guess they are the Reborn terrorists of the 21 century.

I was trolling over at the DUmp last night and found a scarey post on this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1501641

Here is the post:

Jackie97 (1000+ posts)

Mon Jan-17-05 09:18 PM

Response to Original message

23. Okay guys, let me put things another way.

Edited on Mon Jan-17-05 09:20 PM by Jackie97

I really didn't want to put it this way in fear of drawing attention to myself.

I fear that an assassination attempt could get made on Bush. I have no evidence or direct reason to believe that. It's just that I can't help but think that if anybody is going to try to kill Bush, it would be January 20th.

Now, ask yourself. Do you really want to be in the crowd of protesters if Bush gets wacked?

There are plenty of protests to fear going to, and I admire the protesters who go to every single one of them (ones for leftist ideas that is). I admired those who went to the GOP convention protest for example. However, I honestly believe that if somebody is going to make an attempt to kill Bush, it will be that day. You do NOT want to be in the crowds that day if that happens. I'm not talking about avoiding all dangerous protests. I'm not talking about becoming silent against Bush. I'm saying it would be a good idea to be millions of miles away from Bush on a day when he might very well be killed.

I have no evidence that this could happen, and I don't want assassination to. Imagine how bad the left would look if it did happen. Imagine the backlashes to our causes in general. The belief that this type of violence could happen that particular day just common sense. If anybody's going to try it, it might be that day. Do not go.

I forwarded this to a "Friend" ;)

69 posted on 01/18/2005 8:26:23 AM PST by Repub4bush (Hey DU.......Saint Rove....Patron Saint of all your votes!)
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To: PJ-Comix

What's the deal about Obama?


70 posted on 01/18/2005 8:28:12 AM PST by nina0113
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To: angkor
The Rats do maintain a very strong bond with the 60's and 70's for the same reasons mentioned by the DUmmies, but they have no issues that morph with their nostalgia.

If you never caught Emmett Tyrrell's article on the connection between the 60s radical left and the current "blue state" mindset, it's very good: Sixties to the Finish

Actually -- speaking of DUers preferring to do nothing -- would we really rather they were all as ambitious and driven as Hillary?

71 posted on 01/18/2005 8:34:28 AM PST by maryz
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To: PJ-Comix

----Doncha miss all the old '60's radicals/activists? Chicago 7, Black Panthers, Weathermen, AIM, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and such. Please don't tell me they are all conservative republicans now.----

Hee hee.... no. Jerry and Abbie, not unlike your movement, have both been dead for years (one would think you'd do a better job of keeping track of your idols), and the rest of these clowns are well into their third month of smashing their heads into the walls of their respective crackhouses over yellowing newspapers that scream "BUSH WINS!" in twelve-inch type.

But if you want to look up your former comrade-in-arms David Horowitz, you'll find that he has indeed switched sides and is in an excellent position to tell the inside story about what a bunch of hateful losers the '60s detritus was and is.

Did anyone here ever read Rubin's "DO IT!" ? I've got it packed away somewhere, an inheritance from my father's McGovern days (Jimmy Carter sobered him up real fast). The book's hilarious; Andy Warhol meets Che Guevara. The pure arrogance of a rebellious generation that honestly never believed that any subsequent ones would someday rebel against it. I highly recommend it; there's no better reminder of who these scum were and continue to be.

-Dan

72 posted on 01/18/2005 8:43:31 AM PST by Flux Capacitor (HOWARD THE DUCK in 2008)
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To: maryz

"The woman said they have 10,000 members nationwide. Let's see, what percent is that of 280,000,000+ people?"

Doesn't even matter, most of those people don't have any money to buy anything any other day anyway.

Bones


73 posted on 01/18/2005 8:54:24 AM PST by Bones75
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To: PJ-Comix

If I ever decide to loose the bounds of rationality. Huh?!?!


74 posted on 01/18/2005 8:58:17 AM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: maryz
You can sign a petition and everything!

You can also "Select All", "Copy" and "Paste" the names, addresses and phone numbers of the signers into a Word document - it works out to about 300 pages.

75 posted on 01/18/2005 8:59:50 AM PST by nina0113
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To: PJ-Comix
"Gawd how I miss the spirit of those days...I didn't love some of the extremism and violence of those days, but I sure miss the spirit of revolution, the expansiveness and breakthroughs of those times. The commitment to equality and the raising-up of all people. Revolution was in the air and we were bustin' through ALL the boundaries! Mini-skirts and flowers in our long hair, peace beads, Woodstock, The Pill, commonunes, natural foods, and all the rest..."

This is the core of the DUmmie experience now--trying to flip a switch and get some juice flowing through the corpse of the 60's and get it to rise again. Look at those final words--this person can experience all of those things on his/her own, but "commonunes" are the core of it--he wants to live on a college-campus-like version of community, hanging out with similar people also living in the past, childlike and emotion-driven. This person is unhappy with his adult life and wants to retreat to those days of illusion, when they thought they were changing the world because they dropped acid.

I also find it funny how he longs for revolution without "some of the extremism and violence," which were what made people think there would be revolution--it's like longing for WW2 without the fighting. One is inextricably linked to the other.

"You know what? If some genie had visited me when I was young and guaranteed me a billion dollars by age 25, a Playboy Playmate of my choice for a wife, and genius kids by age 30 if I just sold out and worked for the likes of Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and the Bush family and voted Republican in every election for the rest of my life... …I'd tell him to get lost and I'll live my life my way... and in retrospect, wouldn't change a thing - not even all the lean years, and there were a lot of them. "

Gee, don't hurt your arm patting yourself on the back. Bragging that you wouldn't take an offer no one is making is a nice, cheap, no-risk way of making yourself look like a hero.

76 posted on 01/18/2005 9:12:05 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Americans never quit. --Gen. Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Repub4bush

Good for you. Pray for W.


77 posted on 01/18/2005 9:13:11 AM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: PJ-Comix
I was born at the end of the age of Aquarius - January 1970.

Hm. Doesn't the Age of Aquarius actually start in something like 2034? And end about 2,000 years later?

78 posted on 01/18/2005 9:16:17 AM PST by aBootes
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To: PJ-Comix

I'd really like these 'anarchists' put up with real anarchy. Guess what, 911 don't work anymore, and I'm going to take all you have and you may live or not.

These are very sick people that don't have any idea what they want.


79 posted on 01/18/2005 9:16:38 AM PST by Kornev
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To: Repub4bush

----I forwarded this to a "Friend" ;)----

I think we have mutual friends. ;)

-Dan

80 posted on 01/18/2005 9:19:19 AM PST by Flux Capacitor (HOWARD THE DUCK in 2008)
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