big happy worle, were totally unable to practice this and their > >preconceptions and stereotypes where easy to recognize by a group of people > >who were totally unfamiliar with world history and politics............so > >they saw the stereotypic BS that you ascribe to me. Once I heard this, I > >started paying attention to it and there is a lot more ugly stuff I could > >sa
was in the crapper anyway. I > >didn't > >> want to be a musician any more. I was not, however, burned out on my > >> countercultural beliefs. I was *into it* before it was considered to be > >> *cool*, at least in Texas. > >> > >> There was this war going on and lots of my friends were headed over there. > >> This country was being torn apart by dissention and I became more and > more > >> involved in the anti-war movement and the increasingly emerging > >philosophy > >> of non-judgmentalism and defiance of the rule of law/politial anarchism. > >> > >> While I was in school, I ran into a few old acquaintances. They w
ere the > >> rich children of some of the people my dad had been doing business with > in > >> Mexico. They were going to universtity in the states and were, like me, > >> angry, into the counterculture and we renewed our friendships. I started > >> going down to Mexico with them on school holidays and we would travel > to > >> places which were pretty unbelievable. Like paradises which were mostly > >> untouched by human beings (except of course, the local Indians, who were > >not > >> really considered to be human by anyone, including these *enlightened* > >young > >> Mexican revolutionaries-the Indians weren't cool. They were > >traditional