Sunday, October 9, 2011

Some People Have NEVER Gotten Over the Sixties

The headline reads: "Party animals join Occupy Wall Street love-in."

More like a hate-on, no?

The Haight-Ashbury-redolent header inspired this:

If you're goin' to "protest" Wall Street
Be sure to wear a mask upon your face.
If you're goin' to "protest" Wall Street
You're gonna meet a fat chick in that place.

For those come to "protest" Wall Street
"Arab Spring" will be a motivator there.
In the Wall Street "occupation"
Angry people with flowing Guy Fawkes hair.

All across the nation
There's a crazed vibration.
People with notions.
There's a whole generation,
Screaming stock execrations.
People wantin' a schism,
'Cuz they loathe Capitalism.

For those who come to "protest" Wall Street
Be sure to bring your "Israeli 'partheid" sign.
If you come to "protest" Wall Street
Autumntime will be malignant and malign.

If you come to "protest" Wall Street
Autumntime will be malignant and malign.

2 comments:

Carlos Perera said...

I was a freshman at the University of Florida during the two days of rioting, in May, 1972, that followed President Nixon's intensification of the air war against North Vietnam. I was ideologically opposed to the rioters--who were objectively supporting the North Vietnamese Communist war effort--but what most strongly struck me was not the putative ideological rationale for the riots, but the arrantly unserious attitude of the rioters. To most of the students who participated (based on my own, admittedly unscientific, sampling of same) the whole thing a lark, a slightly dangerous (arrested students were let go with the proverbial "slap on the wrist" by sympathetic judges) but exhilarating game of "bait the police," analogous to running with the bulls in Pamplona during the feast of _San Fermín_. Young people--young males especially--seek to test themselves physically against danger. If they are denied socially constructive ways of doing so, e.g., by an academic culture of political correctness and a nanny-state "safety" regimen, they will find socially destructive ways to do so.

Carlos Perera said...

Scaramouche, you'll be delighted to know that your site has been deemed unworthy of allowing playback of a video showing hippies in Haight-Ashbury circa 1967.