On Fri, 2 May 2003, jburnes wrote:
The one thing that really amazed me when I moved to Colorado is the number of middle aged hippie types that 30 years ago were blasting the establishment for controlling what they wanted to smoke have now *become* the establishment. A professor friend of mine was smoking some Drum and shooting the bull with me in Pearl Street Mall (in Boulder). Some new ager comes by and reprimands him for generating smoke. He wasn't even a middle-aged hippie. The middle-aged hippie types are now running the city council, living in $500,000 homes and laying down nazi laws for the rest.
That my generation, once noted for their significant progress towards human freedoms, has turned into the single largest source of repressive laws and McCarthyesque attitude, is something I have sorrowfully noted for many years. That it keeps getting worse and worse is the only thing that continually fucks with my mind :-/ How did we go from libertarians to fascists?
Hypocrites. Animal Farm come true. Sometimes I really wish for the 70's. Cheesy clothes and Jimmy Carter were small threats to world order.
jim burnes
Amen. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org