[extropy-chat] animusic

spike spike66 at comcast.net
Sun Aug 27 16:02:07 UTC 2006


> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
...
> 
> Hmm?  I became a geek, officially, by joining up with a bunch of SF
> techno-hippies in the mid 70s...  Thing was
> the meetings had so much pot being passed that if you couldn't be
> quite stoned and yet focused you wouldn't make it.  It was all
> psychedelic folks.   Including a couple of dudes that happened by with
> a prototype computer in a wooden case one meeting.
... - samantha


That must have been a California thing Samantha.  My high school years were
slightly later; the two stoners with the prototype computer were already
distributing their products by then.  In those days the stoners and the
techno-geeks never hung out together, didn't like each other.  The stoners
were kinda retro in a lot of ways.  Historians may attribute the political
right surge of the 1980s to the influence of Reagan, but that trend was well
under way before he got to Washington.

The one thing I really hated about that trend was that by the late 70s the
hipsters were insisting on preppy clothes, which were a lot more expensive
than the rags that were perfectly OK in the anti-materialistic 70s.  I liked
the cheap tatterdemalian look, still do.  Of course we geeks never knew the
difference, but still.  

{8-]

spike





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