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"Everywhere I go, there are old hippies, staring with fish eyes at me.." -Doran
I just had that experience. I was in the local library here in Burlingame(which is by the way,a beautiful old building with lots of "Golden Age"flavor),just walking through when I turned a corner and almost ran into a bearded and long haired young man wearing a macrame hat,tie-died Greatful Dead t-shirt and baggy shorts.
I wasn't in a suit (too warm here today),but I did have on my favorite 50's high waisted trousers and a nice dress shirt and my 30's style fedora by Art. Coincidently I was there to check out that book that I believe Doran mentioned; "How We Got Here:The 70's".
Yes, it is possible to have left political opinions and not embrace the extremism of the 70's youth or the extremism of todays Boomers and their children. I mentioned before that I have fairly good memories of the 70's-family,friends,etc. I think this is mainly due to my being just the right age then. If you were 10 years old in 1975 you were young enough to not be bothered by most of the extreme behavior of the adults around you.I think that I was amused by a lot of it. Many was the time that I was in the company of "adults" who were smoking pot,drinking and generally acting ridiculous. I would read my comic books or draw all the while observing them from my standpoint as junior anthropologist. I even had pot offered to me when I was a child. I didn't take it because I thought that they all were acting stupid and I didn't want any part of it. Looking back I'm mostly appalled by what the older generation found acceptable.
I just had that experience. I was in the local library here in Burlingame(which is by the way,a beautiful old building with lots of "Golden Age"flavor),just walking through when I turned a corner and almost ran into a bearded and long haired young man wearing a macrame hat,tie-died Greatful Dead t-shirt and baggy shorts.
I wasn't in a suit (too warm here today),but I did have on my favorite 50's high waisted trousers and a nice dress shirt and my 30's style fedora by Art. Coincidently I was there to check out that book that I believe Doran mentioned; "How We Got Here:The 70's".
Yes, it is possible to have left political opinions and not embrace the extremism of the 70's youth or the extremism of todays Boomers and their children. I mentioned before that I have fairly good memories of the 70's-family,friends,etc. I think this is mainly due to my being just the right age then. If you were 10 years old in 1975 you were young enough to not be bothered by most of the extreme behavior of the adults around you.I think that I was amused by a lot of it. Many was the time that I was in the company of "adults" who were smoking pot,drinking and generally acting ridiculous. I would read my comic books or draw all the while observing them from my standpoint as junior anthropologist. I even had pot offered to me when I was a child. I didn't take it because I thought that they all were acting stupid and I didn't want any part of it. Looking back I'm mostly appalled by what the older generation found acceptable.