Comments | ontd_political: "This is a rant about the greed that permeates the American political landscape."

mzflux in ontd_political

"This is a rant about the greed that permeates the American political landscape."

Jun 12, 2011 00:33

working class, wall street, war, capitalism, climate change, music

Comments 9

quizzicalsphinx June 12 2011, 18:35:55 UTC

He neglects to point out that the dirty fucking hippies grew up to be the generation that implemented a lot of these policies.

Also I liked this routine better when Bill Hicks did it.

mzflux June 12 2011, 19:30:22 UTC

I take it you're referring to ex-hippies growing up and their politics leaning more to the right as they age, a pretty typical phenomenon? Selling out their political idealism and principles for that white picket fence and 2.5 children?

But this is a blanket statement. Plenty of ex-hippies kept their left-leaning attitudes. Ex-hippies helped form the Green Party. Some are now actually serving in Congress and pushing for progressive political legislation. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who considers himself a democratic socialist and provided a strong push for his state's adoption of single-payer health care, is the first who comes to mind.

romp June 12 2011, 22:00:08 UTC

I agree. I live surrounded by hippies who are still hippies. They had great values and kept them.

mzflux June 12 2011, 19:39:15 UTC

If only Bill Hicks hadn't left this world in '94, he might have been around to see Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission burn more hopes to the ground.

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commodiziation fail apostle_of_eris June 13 2011, 19:54:22 UTC

Hippie VW bugs didn't have corporate logos on the bumpers of their mass-produced paint jobs. (opening shot)
"HAIR!" was morphed from a dumb off-off-Broadway show into a national merchandising phenom by the not-too-bright son of a real estate zillionaire who tuned a dairy farm into an expensive, exclusive suburb. (closing shot)

The dfw's were right about cooptation, too.

Re: commodiziation fail mzflux June 13 2011, 20:47:58 UTC

Posted because I was impressed by the song, not the screen shots.

But you're welcome to disregard the message because of a few weak splash images.

Re: commodiziation fail mzflux June 13 2011, 20:54:16 UTC

Also, DFW's?

Re: commodiziation fail apostle_of_eris June 13 2011, 22:57:59 UTC

dfwh's
thanks for catching my typo. I can't type for shit.

I wasn't disregarding the message, I was pointing out the attentiveness necessary to avoid cooptation. Which was insufficient in that clip. Heck, I didn't even look to see if the guy who did the narrative was the guy who strung the images.

I was [called] one of those dirty fucking hippies.