Platt said: The hippie revolution was a challenge to the defective intellectual level, not the social level. DMB goes off half cocked, again.
dmb says: Arlo just posted a bunch of quotes that obviously contradict Platt's accusation. (A few are repeated below.) The facts of history would also contradict Platt's accusation. But actual evidence, textual or historical, almost never plays a role in any of Platt's comments. "The Hippie revolution of the eighties was a moral revolution against both society and intellectuality." (LILA) "If [intellectualism] continued to advocate more freedom from Victorian social restraint, all it would get was more Hippies, who were really just carrying its anti-Victorianism to an extreme. If, on the other hand, it advocated more constructive social conformity in opposition to the Hippies, all it would get was more Victorians, in the form of the reactionary right." (LILA) "The Hippie rejection of social and intellectual patterns left just two directions to go: toward biological quality and toward Dynamic Quality. The revolutionaries of the sixties thought that since both are anti-social, and since both are anti-intellectual, why then they must both be the same. That was the mistake." (LILA) _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_BR_life_in_synch_062009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
