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Originally Posted by Charles
Thank you for the kind words. I was simply expressing a view which runs counter to the accepted norm. And judging by the other comments, I may have just smashed the golden calf.
Needless to say, I didn't attend Woodstock. Not because I was a right wing reactionary, but it was too far away, and it was over before I knew anything about it to start with. At the time, it kind of looked like fun. Had it been closer I would have probably tried to go.
Now I did go out and smoke dope with the people from the Hog Farm...after their bus broke down outside of town. I even gave them a rifle after they told us about being terrorized by the local rednecks. The Highway Patrol handled things differently. They took them to a junkyard so that they could get the parts to repair their bus...and go back to wherever they came from.
Personally, I kind of liked having them around. They were highly entertaining and had some of the best dope I've ever smoked.
Now that I've established my hippy creds, I'd like to make a few observations about the Woodstock event.
To start with it was a concert...a for profit concert. Then the site was overwhelmed by people-hippys? who cut down the fence and went in for free. They created a horrible traffic jamb, ran out of food, and wound up being supplied by the locals and the military. Once the whole thing was over the area looked like a war zone...the landscape was all torn up and garbage was thrown everywhere.
To be fair, 400,000 people managed to stay there for 3 days without anyone getting murdered. Perhaps in some ways the experience transcended reality. But in reality, I don't see that it was anything to be too proud of.
But don't listen to me, I have a "skewed" sense of the world.
Chas
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Charles, you are right, all those things happened.
And then, there is the bigger thing that happened...
That cosmic unification thing that can't be described but was felt as the fabric of our society was soaked with enlightenment of a new age.
(Does that last sentence secure my hippy cred ?
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(Insert tongue in cheek emoticon here).