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</small><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><u>Weather</u>.<br>
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to the hippies</u> #2 </span></span></span></font></big><small><font
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><small>The Last Stand Happening</small></span><font
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style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">UP!<br>
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<big><big><big><big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">21st-Century <span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><big>Weather</big>:<br>
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<big><big><big><big><span
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<big><big><big><big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><small style="font-style: italic;">"Extreme
Rainfall Events" </small><small>Drown </small><small>UK </small><small
style="font-style: italic;"><br>
</small><small><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"></span></small></span></span></big></big></big></big><big><big><big><big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><small>As</small></span></span></big></big></big></big><big><big><big><big><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><small><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Heatwaves </span>Devastate Southern
Europe</small><small style="font-style: italic;"><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
</small></span></span></big></big></big></big></div>
<div style="text-align: right;"><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>by </b>Michael
McCarthy, Environment Editor</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">It is clear today
that <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">f</span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">lood-ravaged Britain</span> is
suffering from a wholly new type of civil emergency: a <big><big><big><span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">disaster</span> </big></big></big>caused
by <big><big><big><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">21st-century
weather</span>.</big></big></big></span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">It's
different from anything that's gone before. The floods it has caused,
which have </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">caused more
than £2bn worth of damage</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
and </span></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">left more than <span
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">a third of
a million people without drinking water, nearly 50,000 people without
power, and thousands more people homeless</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span>- and are still not over -
have no precedent in modern British history.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">According to
the Environment Agency, even the previous worst case in the last 100
years, the extensive floods of spring 1947, which were aggravated by
the vast snow melt that followed an exceptionally hard winter, has been
surpassed. </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"We have not seen
flooding of this magnitude before. The benchmark was 1947, and this
has already exceeded it."</span> And the 1947 floods were said to have
been <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">the
worst for 200 years.</span></span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Most
remarkable of all is the fact that the astonishing picture the nation
is now witnessing - <span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: underline;">whole towns
cut off, gigantic areas underwater, mass evacuations, infrastructure
paralysed and grotesquely swollen rivers</span>,
from the Severn and the Thames downwards not even at their peaks yet -
has all been caused by a single day's rainfall. A month's worth and
more in an hour. It is obvious that the Government and the civil
powers, from Gordon Brown down to the emergency services, are
struggling to cope, not only with the sheer physical scale of the
disaster itself, but with the very concept of it. <big><span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">It is entirely unfamiliar.</span></big>
It is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">new</span>.
<big><big style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Yet
it is exactly what has been forecast for the past decade and more</big><big
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">.</big></big></span><big><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
</big><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">No one can
yet attribute the flood events of the past week, or indeed, those of
June, when Yorkshire suffered what Gloucestershire and Worcestershire
are suffering now - again from one single day's rainfall - directly to
global warming. All climates have a natural variability which includes
exceptional occurrences.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">But the
catastrophic <big style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span
style="font-style: italic;">"extreme rainfall events"</span></big> of
the summer of 2007, on 24 June and 20 July, are <span
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">entirely
consistent with repeated predictions of what climate change will bring</span>.<br>
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style="font-size: 7pt; color: fuchsia;">TJ PHRASER (</span></b><b><span
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& THE </span><span style="color: aqua;">MEDIA EVOLUTION</span></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="color: aqua;"></span><span
style="color: fuchsia;">MIXING THE </span><span style="color: aqua;">TRACTS</span><span
style="color: fuchsia;"> LIVE ON THE </span><span
style="color: maroon;">KEYBOARD</span></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="color: maroon;">@ A
MEDIA-MEME RATE OF </span><span style="color: red;">160 IPP * * </span><span
style="color: maroon;">Ideas Per Paragraph</span></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="color: maroon;"></span><u><span
style="color: fuchsia;">TO SUBSCRIBE SOMEONE</span></u><span
style="color: fuchsia;">, WRITE I wanna get UP! TO </span><span
style="color: blue;"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:fraser@parallel-youniversity.com">fraser@parallel-youniversity.com</a></span></span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="color: blue;"></span><span
style="color: red;">TO UNSUBSCRIBE</span>, HIT REPLY WITH REMOVE IN
THE SUBJECT BOX</span></b><br>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"></span><big><big><big><span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Future Flooding</span></big></big></big><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">It's nearly
10 years since the scientists of the </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;">UK
Climate Impacts Programm</span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span
style="font-style: italic;">e</span>
first gave their detailed forecast of what global warming had in store
for Britain in the 21st century - and high up on the list was <span
style="text-decoration: underline;">rainfall</span>, <span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">increasing both in frequency and
intensity</span>.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Yes, this was
thought most likely to happen in winter, with summers predicted to be
hotter and dryer. But yesterday Peter Stott of the Met Office's <span
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Hadley Centre for
Climate Prediction and Research</span>, an author of a new scientific
paper linking increases in rainfall to climate change, commented: <span
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"It is possible
under climate change that extreme rainfall could increase even under
general drying."</span></span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The paper
detects for the first time a <span
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"human fingerprint"</span>
in rainfall increases in recent decades in the mid-latitudes of the
Northern Hemisphere - that is, it finds they were partly caused by
global warming, itself caused by emissions of greenhouse gases.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The public as
a whole appears not to have taken the extreme rainfall predictions on
board, thinking of climate change in terms of hotter weather.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">>> with nice palm trees in
england i remember.</span><br>
<br>
But the science community has been fully aware of it, and has steadily
reinforced the warnings.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">One of the
most important came from a group of experts commissioned to look at the
risks by the Chief Scientific Adviser, under the Government's Foresight
Programme, in 2004. Their report, <span
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Future Flooding</span>,
said that unless precautions were taken, more severe floods brought
about by climate change could massively increase the number of people
and the amount of property at risk. Yet once again, this hardly
penetrated the public consciousness.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">>> and what was that
accountant's report last year about how much MORE it will cost if we
don't spend massively NOW to effect change in our behaviour?</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Amidst all
the news of communities being overwhelmed by water yesterday, one very
significant announcement, from Gordon Brown and the Secretary of State
for the Environment, Hilary Benn, was that the Government is setting up
an independent inquiry to look at the flood events of June and July.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Its report
will be <big style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;">immensely important,</span></big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>and may prove <big
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">a milestone
in terms of the British public's appreciation of the reality of climate
change</big>. It will doubtless focus on the key problem in terms of
flood response, but it may also come to the conclusion that </span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><big
style="text-decoration: underline;"><big
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;">we are
already witnessing the future</big></big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><big>.</big> The
floods of 2007 may eventually be regarded as a wake-up call to the
warming climate's rapidly approaching effects.</span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><big
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"><big>Nobody
saw them coming. But that appears to be the way of a changing climate.</big></big><span
style="font-family: Arial Black;"> </span> <br>
<br>
In April 1989 Margaret Thatcher gave her Cabinet a seminar on global
warming and one of the speakers was the scientist and green guru James
Lovelock. A reporter asked him afterwards what would be the first
signs of global warming. He replied: </span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><big style="font-family: Arial Black;"><big><span
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"Surprises."</span></big></big></span><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Asked to
explain, he said: <span
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"The hurricane of
October 1987 was a surprise, wasn't it? There'll be more."</span></span><br
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;">
<br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The floods of
2007 were a surprise as well, and if Dr Lovelock is right, there'll be
more of them too. <big
style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"><big>Welcome
to the weather of the 21st century.</big></big></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">>>
shall i add: u shoulda listened to the hippies?!!! cos the Hippies
were
right, from first to last, now apologise and drop out fast!</span><br>
UP!<br>
<br>
<br>
</span></span>
<div align="right"><big><big><font face="Arial Black"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><u>u shoulda listened
to the hippies</u> #2<br>
</span></span></span></font></big></big></div>
<div
style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<div align="center"><span
style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;"><big><big>Hippy</big></big>,<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</div>
<big><big><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;"><big><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Last Stand Happening</span>!</big><o:p></o:p></span></big></big><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">an <u>ambient
address</u> by </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fraser
Clark</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<br>
<div align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
</span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;">Since
the 2<sup>nd</sup> World War, the masses have been led astray by a
series of
wrong-headed ideas about Society, the Economy, and the Purpose of Life
in
general, and they have watched every one of them falter, fail and fall.<span
style=""> </span>Communism.<span style="">
</span>Consumerism.<span style=""> </span>Social
Engineering.<span style=""> </span>Materialism. <span style=""> </span>The
Market.<span style="">
</span>Thatcherism.<span style=""> </span>New Labour.<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>And
now, as the Dark Shadow of all these mistakes rears its head in final
karmic paroxysm,
it is dawning on everyone that the Hippy View, the Hipster Vision, is <span
style="font-weight: bold;">The Last Socio-Ecological
Lifestyle Left Standing.</span></span></i><o:p></o:p>
</div>
</div>
<big><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"></span></big>
<div
style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><br>
</o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial Black;"><u><big>PART
ONE</big></u><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial Black;">
</span><br>
<big><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></big><big><big
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><big><big><big><big><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;"><big>Those
Flower Children Were Right</big><o:p></o:p></span><br>
</big></big><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;"><big><big>From
First to Last,</big></big><o:p></o:p></span><br>
</big><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;"><big>So
Apologise, Reassess,</big><o:p></o:p></span><br>
</big></big><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: normal;"><big
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><big>And <i style="">"Drop Out"</i>
Fast!</big></big><o:p></o:p></span></big><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"></span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
</div>
<big><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"></span></i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"></span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><big>When
I decided to become a Hippy in the mid-1960s</big>,</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"> I was DROPPING
OUT of
the greed crazed, increasingly competitive, personally repressed,
anti-Nature culture
that was being pushed down everyone’s throats by billion dollar
propaganda
campaigns.<span style=""> </span><i style="">“Straight Society”</i>
looked insane to me, and a threat to EVERYONE,
even the rich within it.<o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><big
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I’ve
never had reason to change my mind</big><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">.</span><span style=""> </span></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Indeed,
pretty much everything we Hippies feared has since come to pass.<span
style=""> </span>That “Official Culture” has waxed so sick it
is actually killing our planet.<o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Simultaneously,
thank goddess, people <i style="">themselves</i> have
become much more adept at seeing through media spin and propaganda.<span
style=""> </span>And it’s <i style="">because</i>
they now understand how the Matrix demonises any threat to itself that
the time
has come for them to rewind history and register the daily,
lifetime-long, negative
campaign that’s been injected into their minds about the biggest
“Peace, Love
& Green People’s Movement” in human history.<span style=""> </span>(read
those three nouns again and see how ‘hot’
they are today)<o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">For,
believe me, the Matrix was shaken to its very foundations.<o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">And
it hit back ruthlessly with every black op & propaganda tool in its
armoury.<o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">And,
short-sighted and profit-driven as ever, the
Dinosaurs ensured that the Danger which the Hippy Movement was well on
its way
to averting has now reached Global Catastrophic proportions.”<span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<div style="text-align: center;"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Dropping
Out<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
</div>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">By <i
style="">“dropping
out”,</i> the Hippy understood something like what “going off the grid”
means
today.<span style=""> </span>Alternative energy.<span style=""> </span>Going
organic.<span style=""> </span>Lowering demands.<span style=""> </span>Forming
new networks and working more and
more outside the Dominant Economy.<span style=""> </span>Our DROPPING
OUT was, IN HISTORICAL FACT, a brave, personal decision to reduce our
consumption (and our carbon footprint) by 75%.<span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Millions of
good people grokked clearly what the
planet needed. <span style=""> </span>They <i style="">“turned on”</i>
to their inner Nature and their inner conscience (love
& cooperation as opposed to personal greed & competitive
advancement),<i style=""> “tuned in” </i>to the dangers of a social
system based in competition-crazed consumerism, the ego, and the amoral
exploitation
of natural resources, <i style="">“dropped out,”</i> and
joined this Eco-Social movement.<span style=""> </span>Hundreds
of thousands have continued ever since - <i style="">unreported</i>
on the celebrity charts.<span style=""> </span>These few
hundred thousand forgotten people will be recognised as <i style="">the
true heroes and heroines</i> of the last half century.<span style=""> </span>It
is among <i style="">them</i> that History will find the true
thinkers, the true artists,
the true psychologists and spiritual teachers of the last half century.
(See
below under Art)<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">And they have
paid a heavy price for their brave
stand.<span style=""> </span>They have suffered the
condemnation and scorn of several generations.<span style="">
</span>And yet the truth is that, had everyone else possessed the
insight and
courage to do the same (and you didn’t need much insight - the facts
were pretty
obvious even then!), we would today be passing on to the next
generation a
beautiful, healthily preserved, sensitively developed garden planet,
instead of
this shameful, toxic, deeply disturbed mess to which we now find
ourselves
clinging.<o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">And now
people are being <i style="">forced</i> to make those changes, changes
in their behaviour,
lifestyle, personal image, everything.<span style=""> </span>Welcome
aboard Yuppies!<span style=""> </span>Trendies!<span style=""> </span>Punks.<span
style="">
</span>Metal Heads!<span style=""> </span>Geeks!<span style=""> </span>Corporates!<span
style="">
</span>And (if you’ll forgive a long swallowed complaint) all those
Smart Asses
with their planet-destroying consumer goods who <i style="">“just
wanted to have a good time, man”!</i><o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<div style="text-align: center;"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">It’s
<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Longing</span> That Counts<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
</div>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">For the fact
is that, since the 2<sup>nd</sup> World
War, the masses have been led astray by a series of <i style="">wrong-headed
</i>ideas about Society, the Economy, and the Purpose of Life
in general, and they have watched every one of them falter, fail and
fall.<span style=""> </span>Communism.<span style="">
</span>Consumerism.<span style=""> </span>Social
Engineering.<span style=""> </span>Materialism.<span style=""> </span>The
Market.<span style="">
</span>‘There Is No Alternative’ Thatcherism.<span style="">
</span>New Labour. <span style=""> </span>And now, as the Dark
Shadow of all these mistakes begins to burst over them in this final
paroxysm,
it is dawning on everyone that the Hippy View, the Hipster Vision, is
The Last Socio-Ecological
Lifestyle Left Standing.<o:p></o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">This is how
Theodore Rozak,
in <i style="">‘The Making of a Counter Culture’</i>,
described and explained the depth and power of Hippy, the greatest
social
movement in human history... until today:<span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">“</span><i
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">'For
it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to
nothing
the understanding of the prudent. God
hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and
God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are
mighty.’</span><o:p style="font-weight: bold;"></o:p></span></i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"> </span><br
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p>
</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">
<i style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><st1:City
style="font-weight: bold;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Saint Paul</st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-weight: bold;"> said that.<span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span>It is a familiar passage from what is now an oppressively
respectable
source. So familiar and so respectable
that we easily lose sight of how aggressively perverse a declaration it
is ...
how loaded with unabashed contempt for a long established culture rich
with
achievement. And whose contempt was
this? That of absolute nobodies, the
very scum of the earth, whose own counter-culture was, at this early
stage,
little more than a scattering of suggestive ideas, a few crude symbols,
and a
desperate longing. It was the longing
which counted most, for not all the grandeur of Greco-Roman
civilisation could
fill the desolation of spirit which Christianity bred on." </span><span
style=""> </span></span></i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p>
</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-family: Arial Black;"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">
UP!</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<big style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">[DESOLATION
OF SPIRIT.<span style=""> </span>DESOLATION OF PLANET.<span style="">
</span>PART TWO IN NEXT <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">UP!</span>]<o:p></o:p></span></big>
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