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- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!ncar!vexcel!dean
- From: dean@vexcel.com (dean alaska)
- Subject: Re: Native People's leadership (!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.143154.1044@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder, CO
- References: <STEINLY.92Jul28125208@topaz.ucsc.edu> <1992Jul28.225408.3575@vexcel.com> <JMC.92Jul28175405@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:31:54 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Jul28175405@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >The counter-cultural people in communes are parasitic on the main
- >culture in the following senses:
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- I would suggest that communes are a subset of the counter-culture
- and are not completely representative.
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- There seems to be a running assumption here that counter culture = poor
- non-working types. While I am too young to be personally familiar with
- the 60's counter culture, the counter culture I am familiar with today
- takes care of itself quite well with alternative health care and has
- plenty of the "wisdom-enhanced" (seniors) living among them. While
- their tax contribution is small, so are their demands from society.
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
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- dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
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