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College Age - Saving the Rain Forest
November 30, 2008
College is a blast, especially if you are not exceedingly young and easily swayed by the latest hippy trends--also known as fads. Having actually been a hippy or, at least, having seen some real live hippies, I recognize "hippy-think" when I see it.
“Hey, let’s not shave our armpits anymore, forever.” Yikes.
Hippy trends tend to blow across the average college campus like the monsoon showers of a Brazilian rain forest.
I once heard a young, earnest, rabid biology student say, “Those starving people in Brazil should stop cutting down the rain forests, because the rain forests belong to all of us.”
Turning to the student at my left, I asked, “Did we invade Brazil?” I was confused by the concept I had recently learned in a political science class concerning national sovereignty and the rights of free people to try not to starve.
Finally, I piped up and said, “Oh forget the rain forest. What we need to get fired up about is the hideous monopoly of the school bookstore and the choke hold that these academic types have on our textbooks. $150.00 bucks for a book that the teacher will not use and the bookstore will buy back for twelve coconuts and some change. And then next semester the publishers will print a new edition with two words changed—both misspelled.”
At this point, I jumped to my feet. “Who’s with me? Let’s unite, protest, picket, and not shave our armpits for a year.”
They stared at me with their large, owlish eyes—pits neatly shaved, arms nicely toned.
Finally, one of them broke the silence and asked, “Linda, have you seen the new "Twilight" movie yet?”
“Not yet.”
“Well hurry up. We want to know what you think.”
It is so hard to find a good hippy protest these days.
Sincerely,
Linda (Give Hippies a Chance) Zern
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