I don’t know what set you off, or made you angry, but I didn’t realize that we were in some sort of fight.
Evidently you have something else on your mind than what I thought we were posting on.
By the way, those people you mentioned are establishment people, not hippies.
No anger, Ansel, sorry.
You have to acknowledge that you are a bit of a gadfly, right? When you light on someone and take a little bite, they are occasionally likely to react with a harmless swipe.
I just think we are playing a game of definitions here. You say you are a hippie and all those other people weren’t-—well, that’s fine.
But the larger questions are whether the cohort of Americans who were born or came of age in the post-War years have radically transformed American politics and society, and whether that cohort was shaped in some way by the anti-establishment/anti-war leftist drugs/sex/rock-n-roll movement so many of us associate with “hippies.”
I know that the people I mentioned are establishment figures now. That is my point. I was trying to suggest to you that during the 60s that type of person was almost certainly radicalized, and was hanging out with “hippies,” and they were not focused on conservation and self-sufficiency and thoughtful living, as were you.
I appreciated your response, Ansel, and apologize for my snappishness.