"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message
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Dan/W4NTI wrote:

"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message
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"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Kim"

writes:

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

writes:


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).

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

Kim W5TIT



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.

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!



My point exactly.

Dan/W4NTI