The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to mak...e it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped ou...t of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I looked so much like a guy you couldn't tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys' clothes, I walked like a guy ...... [ellipsis in source] I didn't do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've never heard of Timothy Leary before, but I want to get into advertising, so I liked when he talked about how whoever controls... your eyeballs controls your mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »