Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.flame Subject: Re: What is a yuppie? Message-ID: <550@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 18:13:55 EST Article-I.D.: unc.550 Posted: Thu Nov 7 18:13:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 06:37:19 EST References: <1454@hound.UUCP> <2017@pyuxd.UUCP> <1246@ihuxn.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.singles:9634 net.flame:12668 Summary: Ken Perlow (Gadfly) writes (about the '60s): >--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. > >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". 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. 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 the 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