> [Krimel]
> So let's review: You quote Seeger to support your right wing fantasies. 
> But when the context is made clear you entered into a debate with his 
> song?
> Thanks for another lesson in the obscure workings of the conservative
> mind. 

[Platt]
Only your mind is obscure. I quoted one line to illustrate that yuppies 
have never learned the sacrifices required to defend liberty. Obviously, 
the socialist, pacifist Seeger never learned it either. 

[Krimel]
OK, just to further the history lesson. Seeger or at least his music is
better associated with hippies. Yuppies were the corporals and sergeants of
the Raygun Revolution. They are best portrayed in the film American Psycho.
Seeger on the other hand was featured in "Alice's Restaurant". He was a
friend of Woody Guthrie. His songs, were made popular by such flower
children as the Mama's and the Papa's, The Byrds, Joaz Baez and the Kingston
Trio. His songs, like, "If I Had a Hammer" and his reworking of Ecclesiastes
into the celestial, "Turn, Turn, Turn," were at once simple, direct and
profoundly cerebral.

A nice sample of yuppie music can be found on the American Psycho
soundtrack, Phil Collins, Robert Palmer, Huey Lewis, and Katrina and the
Waves. Like the Raygun era that spawned it, it is all very energetic,
mindless and self centered. 


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