Posted by so on May 19, 2005, at 2:02:38
In reply to Re: Hey Nikki, me, too...., posted by Phillipa on May 18, 2005, at 23:36:24
> So, Why are you here?
I was invited. I was honest and I was sanctioned for my honesty. Now I am inquiring about the coherence of the stated sanction. Other dialogue in this thread developed secondarily to my inquiry about why a username is still blocked six weeks after a stated two or three week sanction. The admin said he might have forgotten, or might have intentionally left a username blocked regardless his published statement to the contrary. In response to his request that I resend an e-mail asking him to do what he said he would do, I invited him to better explain here what is his reasoning.
>I personally appreciate everything and everybody on this and the other Boards.Including me?
>There have to be "rules" or life would be a "free for all".
I have not carved out a position in opposition to rules. I am inquiring why the administrator rules one way (two or three week block) then acts otherwise. Like a poorly placed stop-light or any other capricious law, vague or inconsistently enforced rules can tend to erode confidence in authority.
> And what was wrong with the hippies.
I presume you are referencing my comment that holding a medical license is not consistent with the hippie lifestyle. The hippies around which a cultural mythology was constructed sacrificed. Let me say that again ... on it's own line.
THEY SACRIFICED.
They gave up stable homes, rewarding careers and substantion incomes in an to attempt to establish a less harmful way of life. They attempted to establish communities, with prevention-based healthcare systems. And for their efforts, a bunch of people got rich selling songs about their movement, while those who were really trying to establish a better way of life suffered ridicule and local persecution until for the most part, their alternative communities eroded. I often visit some of the crumbling homesites, now 20 or 30 years later. I look at the left-behind bedframes and child's toys. I talk to the toothless old survivors. I didn't say anything was wrong with the hippies. I said people who work in offices are not hippies.
>I consider myself a "Flower Child" even though I was married and had 2 children at the time. John Lennon was an inspiration to me. I didn't use illegal drugs or march in rallies. And our generation is running the World now. Maybe not to everyone's liking but then noone is perfect. Just my 2 cents. Phillipa
Once Capitol Records got hold of the movement, anyone with enough coins to buy the Woodstock album was a flower child. It might have been nobody's conscious intention, but the movement was diverted and coopted. As Steven Stills said in the '90's - the wooden ships were just a hippie dream. For the most part, we only pretended we were leaving -- we stayed behind even though "you don't need us" apparently because we needed them -- them being the capitalists. We did not get back to the land and we did not set our souls free anymore than any generation before or after. But we could have.
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