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Subject: Re: What is a yuppie?
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 14:04:33 EST
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Ah yes, yuppies.  You know, back in the mid-sixties we'd all get
real stoned and then giggle about how "in 20 years, we're gonna
run this country".  (That's "gonna", as in "Smoke dope, get
high, all the pigs are gonna die!")  Well, here it is 20 years
later, and guess what--we were right.  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.

Ah yes, yuppies.  No, not you young whippersnappers who never had
any real education--or real principles--to begin with.  I'm talking
to *you*, Mr/Ms 35-year-old, used-to-know-all-six-verses-of-Solidarity-
Forever activist-turned-fiscal-conservative, a/k/a "libertarian",
a/k/a "objectivist" (that one really hurts--there was a bona fide
and occasionally useful philosophy called objectivism long before
Ayn Rand usurped the name).  You're so spineless you couldn't stand
the cognitive dissonance associated with possessing both a portfolio
and principles.  So there you sit, materially well-off but morally
bankrupt.  And if you remembered any of your hallowed liberal arts
education through the miasma of professional growth psycho-babble
in your designer brains, even you yourselves could prove it.

O tempora!  O mores!
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