In article , "Dick Carroll;"
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Subject: For those that are against the morse removal
From: "Dick Carroll;"
Date: 1 Sep 2003 07:11:09 GMT



Dan/W4NTI wrote:

"Kim" wrote in message
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In article , "Kim"

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"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Kim"

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The song is really an anti-conformity ditty, loosely derived from
Malvina
Reynolds' "Little Boxes" and others of that ilk.

Yet, quite prophetic when looking back now.

How?

Oh, I think many today--even me--are quite involved and disolved with
keeping ourselves happy with material things. While I am not a keep
up
with
the Jones' kind of person (i.e., unaffected by "status" symbols), I do
find
amusement in "things" more than I used to. I used to be happy just to
watch
ants...

Ah - good explanation! And observation...

Here's another one for ya...

From 1972-1976 I attended a large urban university. The big thing back
then
was "nonconformity" to the rules of the "establishment", particularly
in
manners of slang, clothes and haircut.

After a while, though, it became clear that we'd simply traded one form
of
conformity for another, and that we "nonconformists" pretty much
dressed
alike,
talked alike, and had similar haircuts.

The university gave us more than schooling - we were actually educated,
often
by experiences that seemed minor at the time.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Absolutely!! I was one "of those" (nonconformists). Actually, I still
concentrate on being so--it doesn't come naturally any more GRIN. If
everyone is planting roses, I'll plant petunias. If all women like
diamonds, I like opals (and that is actually the truth).

But you're still planting flowers, and liking jewelry. Same difference.

Anyway, you're right about the more we tried to be different, the more we
were the same. Uh, but we were the same together

Groovy, baby!

Oh, now ur claiming to be a 'flower child'? Don't think so. Or perhaps
you came in after things ended, eh? A wannabee flower child? Now thats a
real probabliity.

Bummer, man! Why such a downer?

Hey, she'e the one who wanted to go to Woodstock back when, but her mother
wouldn't let her because she was too young. Pity!

Woodstock? Let's see, that was late summer 1969, when Kim was 15 if memory
serves. I don't think a responsible parent would let their 15-year-old go to
such a "happening".

Heck, from all accounts most of those who set out for Woodstock never actually
got there due to traffic snarls. Some of the performers had to be helicoptered
in and out, and some never made it. The whole event was such a mess that large
outdoor festivals basically disappeared afterwards because nobody with half a
brain would issue the necessary permits. (Altamont drove the final nail in that
coffin).

Counterculture? Check this out: The promoters who put on the Woodstock festival
lost big piles of money on the concert. The whole thing was too big for them to
control - early on they even lost the ability to collect admission. There was
even talk of civil suits over huge unpaid expenses BUT....

The promoters had done one smart thing: They owned the rights to almost all
recordings (film and sound) made at the festival. So they made a documentary
movie and record album for very little money, and made back all their losses
and millions more. Good old capitalism...

Remember the song "Woodstock", made famous by Crosby Stills Nash and Young? It
was actually written by Joni Mitchell (who also performed the first version).
Buit Mitchell was not at the Woodstock festival at all!

The summer of 1969 was when human beings first set foot on the moon. That's
what I think of first when that time is mentioned.

73 de Jim, N2EY