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From: bing@galbp.UUCP (Bing Bang)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: What is a yuppie?
Message-ID: <237@galbp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 00:57:47 EST
Article-I.D.: galbp.237
Posted: Thu Nov 14 00:57:47 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Nov-85 01:47:16 EST
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Reply-To: bing@galbp.UUCP (Bing Bang)
Organization: Lanier Business Products, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
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Summary: 

In article <> gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
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>[Me, being crotchety]
>>> --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.

i think you all have it all wrong... yuppies (or ex-hippies, whatever)
didn't throw away any of their principles... the main thing i remember
about hippies was that they asserted their personal freedom to do what
they pleased in very loud and vissual ways. in the sixties, 'what they
pleased' clashed with the estabilishment very directly. in the eighties,
they are still doing exactly 'what they please.' you ask any yuppy
they'll tell you that the thing they value most is personal freedom, it's
just that when you have money, you get to express your personal freedom
by being decadent...

by the way, i was never a hippie, but had friends who had long hair and
said 'man' every other word...

bing

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