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From: mink@cfa.UUCP (Doug Mink)
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Subject: Yuppies and others
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 17:49:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 17:49:11 1985
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-Eat brie, line eater-

Ken Perlow (Gadfly) writes (about the '60s):
> --Even back then, we knew damn well that we'd wind up compromising
> a number of our oh-so-lofty principles, round off a few of the rough
> edges here and there.  But never, *never*, did any of us ever suspect
> that our whole generation en masse would throw away the very essence
> of the progressive ideals it held dear and spit on them.

In article <550@unc.unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes:
> Get real, will ya'?  Lofty principles and ideals of the 60's?
> Give me a break!  Most of the 60's youth didn't even understand
> the slogans the spouted.  It was merely fashion -- the cool thing
> to do at the time (and if you weren't cool, how could you hope
> to get laid?).
 
As someone with a VCR stacked on top of a box containing a bunch of
Grateful Dead albums and a beat-up Honda Civic which gets driven only
once every couple of weeks because I bicycle everywhere, I'd like to
speak up for a bunch of 60's survivors who haven't given up.  I still
spend 10 hours a week working on environmental causes and live, quite
comfortably, thank you, with a group of other relics in a house in
Cambridge.  At demonstrations, hearings, and political conferences, the
people I see tend to be in their 30's; when it looked like SDI might become
involved in our astronomical research, the programmers, all of yuppy age,
revolted.  The youth of the 60's were involved in a mass movement; many
just went along with the crowd, but quite a few were thinking then and
haven't stopped.  We may not be running the country, but we've got
pieces of it.
			Think global, act local,
			Doug Mink

These opinions are my own, but anyone who wants to share them is welcome to.