Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

It calls to mind that weird commercial they ran for Woodstock II a few
years back. They had supposed ex-hippies in business atire talking software
and taxes ("that you, Sunshine???) - gag. It was obviously meant to get the
yuppie demographic who could afford the concert price. But in the end it
wasn't a repeat of Woodstock; it was just another outdoor concert. This
time they had lots of vendors and pricey stuff, lots of restrooms and all
the conveniences - without the original mud and Hendrix ending it while
trash pickup started there on Yasgur's farm. I only know because my son
went this last time, he was definitely not a yuppie and worked his way in
as an employee of the concert. 

So where does all this leave us today? Do we have much left of the ideals
of community, of working with nature, of living more simply in tune with
the seasons and the cycles of life? Is it vain hope that we'll learn to
listen to the wind and the rain, feel the soil, smell the fresh air and
make a more sustainable life? Or like Woodstock II just be passive
consumers of feel-good concerts? 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/8/2007 at 1:28 AM Dieter Brand wrote:

>Hear, hear!
>
>TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:  
>Actually what we call "hippies" were a very tiny minority in their heyday.
>In contrast, the overwhelming majority of youngsters did not drop out,
they
>stayed in school, closed their minds, joined corporations or the military,
>and *they* were the ones who, as you put it, "drove the economy into the
>ground". The hippies did not turn into blithering idiots. I know. When I
>was at Texas A&M I saw the blithering idiots marching around, waiting
their
>turn to join the 50,000 sacrificed in The Nam. 
>
>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>On 5/7/2007 at 8:34 PM Derek Chamberlain wrote:
>
>>Respectfully, the hippies got just about everything
>>wrong. They are the reason for many ills of society.
>>They screwed their brains out, and then gave up on
>>their own dream, turned int he tie-dye for suits, and
>>drove the economy into the ground. Do a little more
>>research on the "baby boomers" aka "hippies." 
>>
>>Excellent article here:
>>http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-05-02/news/boomtastrophe/
>>
>>Even better, try to get a copy @ the library. Truly
>>scary statistics.
>>
>
>
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