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From: zemke@ihuxn.UUCP (shedden)
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Subject: Re: What is a yuppie?> or longhair lackyism!
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 12:41:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 12:41:10 1986
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> >> 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.
> 
> > 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?).  Sure, a few of the New Left (read "communist") yippies
> 
> Hmmm, so that's how it happened.  Silly us.  We didn't know which end
> was up, just partying all the time and yelling dumb slogans.  Well,
> 
> Of course, Madison Avenue was hot on our heels, co-opting our values
> wherever it could.  And so was Hollywood, which through all those
> 
> Frank, if you were as peripheral to The Movement as your comments
> indicate, I'm sorry.  But don't knock it because you weren't there
> in the streets.  Then again, maybe that *is* a good reason to knock
> it.  You can't look at today's jazzercise/pasta salad/designer
> culture and imagine you'll get another chance real soon.  Sigh.

Today's software development subculture epitomizes the movement of
the long-hair ethic into "artistic establishment lackyism".

Wake up and smell the coffee, slogan mongers!