When we said we had never heard of any hippie giving acid to a little kid, and that we found her essay offensive, the way she made every hippie she met sound either depraved or mental or moronic, he shrugged. Maybe West Coast hippies are different, he said.
My sister was a teacher at a progressive school in Berkeley. One of her pupils
gave up marijuana at the age of 8. So there's that. I never read Slouching Toward Bethlehem, and I didn't know Joan Didion was a conservative Republican. I was offended by Hair because of the way it portrayed my generation in the 60s.
