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Subject: Re: What is a yuppie?
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 02:37:00 EST
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perhaps this belongs in net.politics, but i take a great of 
offense to the implication that those of the 60's/70's became
involved merely for the good times and good sex.

/* Written  5:13 pm  Nov  7, 1985 by fsks@unc.UUCP */
>>Get real, will ya'?  Lofty principles and ideals of the 60's?
>>Give me a break!  Most of the 60's youth didn't even understand
>>the slogans they spouted.  It was merely fashion -- the cool thing
>>to do at the time (and if you weren't cool, how could you hope
>>to get laid?).  Sure, a few of the New Left (read "communist") yippies
>>knew what they were doing, but for most of the rest, it was just
>>one big party.  Seeing a few old films like "Getting Straight"
>>(starring Elliot Gould and Candice Bergen) or "Fritz the Cat"
>>(starring himself) will set you straight about the motivations
>>and concerns of that time.
>>       Frank Silbermann

Maybe we didn't understand exactly everything we 'spouted' but then who
ever does?  Would it have been more fashionable to continue to let the 
Biafrans starve??  Was it fashionable to watch family and friends come 
home physically & emotionally wrecked? Come home in pieces?  How about
a body bag, Frank?  I have never been more scared than when I was flying
combat missions. And I don't want to see anyone else go off to fight.
There is NOTHING fashionable about war.  There is NOTHING fashionable
about either dying or making someone else die. What makes one
protesting against world injustice or war a 'communist'?  You reduce
the motivations and concerns of a lot of people who loved their country
but just didn't agree with what was going on and took to the streets
(read "free society") to "Fritz the Cat"?? . Being fashionably concerned
and getting laid:  Is that another tip from your "How to Pick Up Women"
books??  YOU DISGUST ME!!

John B.