Only 4?

5 Replies to “Only 4?”

1. Kathy missed one: Dying With Dignity.
   http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.ca/2014/10/suicide-by-doctor-counter-argument.html
   It means “Self absorbed selfish Boomer wussing out.”

2. Back in the 1970’s I often had the term “redneck hippy” applied to me as I was in favor of the Vietnam war but was enjoying the sexual revolution in the target rich environment of a university which was just one of the positives in the counterculture of the 1960’s. I thought all members of the Weathermen should be shot as they committed the cardinal sin of blowing up a computer!! That deserves the severest punishment one can inflict on someone or it might just be a reflection of my hacker weltanschauung.
   The people I didn’t have much use for in the 1970’s were those who eschewed modern technology and lived in lice infested communes where “free love” was practiced which sounds great in theory if one can get past the ick factor of unwashed lice and crab infested female bodies in their “natural” state. Back then I called myself an anarchist and saw the leaders of such communes as petty totalitarians whose primary goal was to find messed up kids to bring into the “family” and micromanage their lives. It seems that those same totalitarians now have cut their hair, put on suits and become members of the government now inflicting their totalitarian views on much larger groups of people. I’ve now changed to Libertarianism as most self defined “anarchists” I’ve known in my lifetime are really communists who like to break things.
   Widespread use of psychedelic drugs is the primary achievement of that era and this introduced millions of people in a very direct manner to the concept that percieved “reality” is a construct of ones wetware and just a tiny subset of external reality which, as a result of its vastness, only fragments are knowable by biologic systems. Interestingly, by bringing up this concept with patients I can almost immediately ascertain if they used psychedelics in the 1960’s of 1970’s by how readily they understand the above concept. Of course, in the post-modernist perversion of this discovery, “reality” is assumed to be a personal construct independent of external reality which is something that only someone who lives in a large city and inhabits a highly circumscribed reality tunnel can believe in. Ironically, the same totalitarians that formed cults and “revolutionary” groups in the 1960’s are now full participants of the “war on (some) drugs” as they don’t want people to become enlightened and see through the statist BS that they’re spouting.

3. Loki, Some of my University classmates of the early seventies referred to me as a “hippy, greaser, cowboy” which seemed to cover all bases but my libertarian conversion came around the same time.
   The term “Hippy” has always disturbed me as other than the commune, free-love, long hair, era-music (likely the only part that contained any limited value to me), drugs, and associated aesthetics, much of the leftist-progressive-nihilism attributed to the movement was inherited from the old left of the so-called Greatest generation or earlier. Viet Nam may have been influenced and fought by many Boomers, but command and political control was thoroughly in the hands of the previous generation. Nader, Ruckelshaus (Banned DDT), Alynsky, Trudeau, Timothy Leary, etc, may have all influenced Boomers but were all from the previous or earlier generation.

4. Shaidle strikes me as a troll with a blog. I know Mark Steyn holds her in some regard so I try to give her the benefit of the doubt but guilt by association (and hair length) just seems very left wing to me.

5. “Troll with a blog” is an oxymoron. A blog is for writing what you want in. A troll writes what he wants in someone else’s blog.
   When you start publishing a blog that earns the respect of the likes of Mark Steyn, and Kathy Shaidle comes on and starts peeing in your comments, then you’ll have something to complain about. I expect it’ll be a while yet.