Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxn!gadfly From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.flame Subject: Re: What is a yuppie? Message-ID: <1246@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 14:04:33 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxn.1246 Posted: Tue Nov 5 14:04:33 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 04:39:31 EST References: <1454@hound.UUCP> <2017@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.singles:9615 net.flame:12648 -- 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! -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 05 Nov 85 [15 Brumaire An CXCIV] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***