In the 60's when the government was afraid of the hippies,scared of their rebellion and questioning of authority and"norms" the control freaks seeking to reestablish their kind of order were frustrated that the hippies could not be ridiculed or intimidated by their dress sexuality or lifestyles.This is one reason among many why the establishment feared the hippies and the"new left". The establishment could not dominate a culture that was free,forgiving of the awkward sometimes embarrassing or controversial aspects of living a life.Morality is not generated from ones dress or lifestyle what degrees they got from college their priestly status, or whether they smoked a bong 5 years ago,or cuss or wear a big blue Mohawk..
Wisdom comes through mistakes made and lessons understood and relationships changes and insights gained.
Character is found in how one relates and respects others, it is found in how much you care about this thing called quality of life and how willing you are to share that with others,it's about clear boundaries and less defensiveness,it is in ones honest desire to give,help,understand, and share and explore. Character is found in ones love for wisdom... which comes from EXPERIENCES assimilated and learned from..embodied in the more Promethean qualities of humanity..
Character is found in a strong inner locus of control inside a person that is creative,flexible ,transparent and open but independent ,compassionate..and fearless of others self serving attempts at domination through humiliation and hypocrisy.The hippies could not be humiliated for being"crazy" because they embraced crazy,deviant and abnormal and dressed the part fearlessly and shamelessly.Hippies knew the human mind and accepted their own desire to explore reality fully.Exploring reality and asking why leads people to strange places, doing taboo things sometimes and in the hippie mindset it was all good as long as it was not bullying ,domination or violating others consent or freedom to be.
In the establishment mindset freedom to explore was this evil disobedience to authority and rejection of "traditional values" that authoritarians invented, labeled it order and to this day the right says society needs to adhere to"norms" and the appearance of it to to protect itself when really the myth of "normal" protects the authoritarians power to bully people into conformity.
Every serial killer is such a quiet a regular joe until he is caught.Normalcy for the truly deviant is just a ruse to get away with atrocities.
So that said, yep I know I am crazy,I am an ex satanist ,an ex fundie,transgender cat person , I am not normal, never was. I read far left literature like abby hoffman and derrick jensen. I have also read leo Strauss and Vogelan..I ask alot of questions that upset alot of people, on the left AND the right. I always offend the victorian insensibilities.I am rebellious to all bullies and authoritarians and their"orders",and I don't give a flying FUCK what anyone thinks about my life adventures or my human failings or my emotions or my anger ort my typos or my arm pit hair or body fat ratio,bad experiences or my clumsy attempts at relating them to you,or my emotions about my travails inside my own mind trying to get at the wisdom within life..I have had a wild ride developing my character.I have taken hits been traumatixzed and pissed lots of people off and scared the shit out of just as many,Maybe that is why I have a real moral character and don't need to cultivate the appearance of normal to window dress me up as someone I am not.I wear my heart on my sleeve,I dress up like A cat and I don't care. When you meet me what you see is what you get,I don't have time to waste on games or pretenses.
This is why the right is so afraid of free people like me,and all the good hearted,ethical,radical,liberals,anarchists,heretics and freaks. The establishment is in terror of anyone who questions the status quo,who questions authority. The right will on any challege to thier'authority' pull out the ol' "yardstick for lunatics with ONE point of veiw" and judge people like fools.
Look the right are trying so hard to look average joe, or appear that way ,just a traditional status quo joe, and they desire to impose that conformity on others. This is so THE RIGHT can feel secure,and empowered by thier ignorance and lack of character and to justfy the thirst for control they desire to limits others freedom to develop thier own character by asking questions and experincing life. Rigid control freaks never learned to relate to anyone else except people like themselves or those people they could intimidate ,bribe or cocerce into compliance with their fears,as if that reactionary game could end our differences,alighn all por points of veiw, and fotrever stifle social change..
http://web.pitas.com/page6/upits111802.htmlThe Normal Game
by Underground Panther in the Sky
sung to the tune of "The Brady Bunch" ...
Let me tell you a story, 'bout a game called Normal
It's really no more than a psycho hunch
That people to be a better species
need to die a bunch
In eighteen seventy-seven Normal was invented
It's birthplace was the mind of Francis Galton
Galton had a fondness for pins and boxes
The marbles said who'd pass on
The Normal Game
The Normal Game
That's why we all play the Normal Game.
Galton was a cousin of Charles Darwin
Of origin of species writ of fame
They were cruel men thought of as smart men
None dare call them insane.
Galton thought he'd engineer evolution
Some greedy rich men felt that this was it
They called it a genius innovation
Their heads were full of shit.
The Normal Game
The Normal Game
That's why we all play the Normal Game.
Till the one day when Galton sold the public
And they believed it was much more than a crock,
Because Darwin said our species might be guided.
let's start with Galton's cock.
The bible scholars were up in a furor
Evolution still has their panties in a bunch
But it's the people who evolved into the churchmen
Whom ate the normals for lunch
The Normal Game
The Normal Game
That's what happens when we play the Normal Game.
Years later a Galton fan named Hitler
Took normal to it's very scary ends
He killed lots and lots and lots of people
He even killed his friends
But these stubborn and clever eugenicists
Wouldn't stop normal o'er bad press
they changed tactics, co opted psychology
And made a total social mess
The Normal Game
The Normal Game
That's what happens when we play the Normal Game.
Eugenics then warped the social mindspace
Creating false ideas about human minds
Take a person, make them play Normal
fit in to save their face
So psychiatry has forced us to be 'normal'
The crazy norms became our 'sanity'
We are so scared now of being different.
We act like Hannity
The Normal Game
The Normal Game
That's what happens when we play the Normal Game.
So we'd rather lie than know our own life story
Never admit how confused and scared we are,
But we are different people living all together
Hiding from our scars
So to avoid this we all try to look real normal
Pretend our life it is not so very rough
Denial and control is our way of life now
So we must be tough.
The Normal Game
The Normal Game
That's what happens when we play the Normal Game.
So It seems that old man Galton got his way now,
It seems we all are normal to a fault,
Monoculture rules in the suburbs
Normal is a cult
The Normal Game
The Normal Game
That is why we all play the Normal Game.
Halloween - Dead Kennedys
So it's halloween
And you feel like dancin'
And you feel like shinin'
And you feel like letting loose
Whatcha gonna be
Babe, you better know
And you better plan
Better plan all day
Better plan all week
Better plan all month
Better plan all year
You're dressed up like a clown
Putting on your act
It's the only time all year
You'll ever admit that
I can see your eyes
I can see your brain
Baby, nothing's changed
(repeat)
You're still hiding in a mask
You take your fun seriously
No, don't blow this year's chance
Tomorrow your mold goes back on
After halloween
You go to work today
You'll go to work tomorrow
Shitfaced tonight
You'll brag about it for months
Remember what I did
Remember what I was
Back on halloween
But what's in between
Where are your ideas
You sit around and dream
For next halloween
Why not everyday
Are you so afraid
What will people say
(repeat)
After halloween
Because your role is planned for you
There's nothing you can do
But stop and think it through
But what will the boss say to you
And what will your girlfriend say to you
And the people out on the street they might glare at you
And whadya know you're pretty self-conscious too
So you run back and stuff yourselves in rigid business costumes
Only at night to score is your leather uniform exhumed
Why don't you take your social regulations
And shove 'em up your ass