rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (04/03/85)
From Rich Rosen: > ...A bunch of wasted hippies on drugs > seeing themselves as analogous to the resistance of the Solidarity > movement, fighting for "freedom" in a way similar to what Poles have had > to go through. It's just hysterical. And truly degrading to what those > people have had to go through... Granted, the comparison between D'Heads and Solidarity just doesn't make it. But where does Rosen get the moronic idea that DeadHeads are just "a bunch of wasted hippies on drugs..."? Probably straight out of Rolling Stone or some other equally intellectual publication. He certainly didn't get it out of contact with DeadHeads. Rosen has stepped outside of common sense and minimal civility (to say nothing of the bounds of net.music) just for the sake of flaming people he doesn't like. Poor Rich, you can see that his supposedly braod view of the world of music and how people relate to it is really a paper-thin veneer. >...The "deadhead subculture" is perhaps > one of THE single strongest elements within the new yuppie subculture, > neo-conservative non-youths in business suits get to dress up like they > did back in college and smoke dope and take drugs and drive home in their > BMW's. This comparison makes me really sick. The comparison WAS silly--I agree. So why not just attack the comparison instead of everyone who was unwillingly compared. Look, I am a DeadHead but I DO NOT see myself as doing anything analogous to Solidarity, and it is silly to say that I am. Neither am I neo-conservative, nor wear business suits, nor drive a BMW (or similar yupmobile, tho I don't know what that matters). The DeadHead subculture, to the extent that it admits classification (i.e., hardly at all) is the antithesis of the yuppie subculture. Finally, anyone who labels me a "wasted hippie on drugs" is a flaming asshole. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...At last it's the real thing...or close enough to pretend.