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***norm
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posted November 15, 2001 08:53
So yesterday, Ken Kesey, owner of Furthur (the psychedelic bus of the hippie movement), author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, father of the 60's hippie movement, was laid to rest.
No big news story I guess, afterall why should there be? Was he really that important? I mean come on now, Aaliyah was much more important. She was a two bit R&B "artist" who happened to be in a few bad movies. Oh wait, she was hot too. That warrants the popular culture phenomenon that swept the media for the week or so after her death. Afterall, she had that hit song...
He was the founder of the hippie movement. He and his small group of friends were the first. The first to have a cool bus painted with multiple colors. The first to traverse this country doing nothing but challenging the status quo. The Merry Pranksters is what they called themselves. They inspired an entire social movement. Free love, drugs, challenging authority, all by peaceful means. Neal Cassady driving the bus, the Grateful Dead providing the soundtrack, Kesey and friends wreaking havoc in conservative small town USA. All for a goof. The glamorous hippie life that people remember so fondly can be directly traced back to this man and his friends. They were the inspirations for Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, they were gods of counterculture. Now one of them is gone, and with almost no fan-fare he was put to rest. Kind of fitting really, he and his friends were always shunned by mainstream society, so why should he be accepted at the time of his passing. Besides, most 18-24 year olds have no clue who he his, and that is no good for ratings.
Fuck all. I liked that guy.
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Posts: 238 | From: Norm's Ghetto House | Registered: Nov 2001
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Colonel Klink
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posted November 15, 2001 13:18
I didn't know that Norm, I love the movie though. I remember one of the buddies I've been playing role playing games for years with, called his character Randal Patrick McMurphy. Thanx to Nicholson's acting mostly, I guess.Well, I got a bit off the track. You know what, if you are a man of such great events and want to be remembered you have to die from them, or at least die when you're still in everyone's minds. Cuz then you're remembered for 2 minutes, and as fast forgotten. Though, I think hippies mostly want to be forgotten. They're mostly for immediate change in minds but don't feel like reaching posterity. Paradoxically, a very ground to Earth movement 
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