From: elessar@physics.unc.edu (Shawn Mehan)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: East Coast Motivation- (War Story)
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:49:29 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. North. Carolina at Chapel Hill


In article <1992Jul23.002140.21710@news.acns.nwu.edu> tindall@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Tindall) writes:
>  What was I doing with these people in the first place? OK-
>Here goes.
[lot's deleted]
A lot of your points are correct, there are problems with overpopulation,
poverty, widespread ecological damage, etc. The spring is getting wound
pretty tight....
But if everybody gives up total hope and says 'I don't give a fuck'
well....hmmph. I got news for YOU my fine feathered friend...your going to
get Fucked to. Let's see, you say you live above 10000 ft? And a study just
passed my desk about how satellite data shows the largest ever recorded ozone
holes over N.America and N. Europe. And your closer to the source of all those
fun gamma rays and other high-energy photons !-). Guess while some race (read
economic) war wages in LA and NY you will burn up to a little crispy.

Another thing. Thinking like yours concerning ecosystem damage went out the
window awhile ago.a The pesticides you hate so much, where does that go?
Into the ground water system, which then passes into the water-refresh cycle,
thereby spreading thousands of miles from the original contamination site. It
surely does not stay in those cornfields of the midwest.

I could drone on, but you (eagle) have probably stopped reading, or at least
listening by now. All I sense from you is bitterness. That's sad. Escapism
is not the answer to end your frustation; in your case I would recommend a vacation!-)
Look brother, the planet is fucked up, but it will chase you wherever you go.
Ever been to Norway. Judas! talk about pristine beauty! And the radiation clouds
from Chernobyl blew up and gave lots'o'reindeer radiaiton sickness. 1000's of miles
distant source.

You call yourself a hippie(there were so few *real* hippies in the 60's that I
think te term is meaningless anymore). Great, I'm proud for you. And clinton didn't
inhale, great. What are you doing today is the important point. You can't stand still.
You either move forward or back. A lot of us move back. But look at the dead. 
They are the fucking epitomy of survival and dynamic change. There have been a lot 
of *great* musical groups. Why did most of them pass away? failure to move dynamically
and failure to refresh themselves (for the hippies read recharge one's karms !->)
Come on, dead start = SF 60's acid scene...Folk music.....Disco....etc. The dead 
do not represent a throwback or refusal to move with the times. They make an effort
to survive in today's world. They seem pretty happy to me. At least try or
otherwise you will get fucked silenlty, like the candle's flame. To be alive
means to try to survive some more. Therre is so much shit going on, good and bad.
There are a lot of people who care. Won't you come back and join us eagle...the human
race?
appologies for length. By the way, super job eagle on helping with med
problems. So few people will stop to help someone else bleeding on the side of the road
because of fear...then it happens to them.

it's corny, but peace.
-elessar@physics.unc.edu
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