>I don't quite get it (maybe it's the "vision thing"), but how do these
>seemingly different groups mix? I'm sure there are things in common, but
>my experience with Rainbow Gatherings (15 years ago) reminds me of
>possessionless times.
I don't know the details but apparantly they do mix -- someone I know
just got back from the Wyoming Rainbow Gathering and said that Rainbow
people + Zippies had a great time.
Sorry, but I have no other details to report.
Laura
Newsgroups: alt.culture.zippies
From: ggoff@rain.org (Greg Goff)
Subject: Re: D o Zippies and Rainbows mix?
Date: 7 Jul 1994 20:09:03 -0700
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Edward Eugene Shorer (eshorer@eis.calstate.edu) had this to say:
> I don't quite get it (maybe it's the "vision thing"), but how do these
> seemingly different groups mix? I'm sure there are things in common, but
> my experience with Rainbow Gatherings (15 years ago) reminds me of
The zippies, so the story goes, are a fusion of New Age Travellers (who sound a lot like a UK version of the Rainbow Family) and urban techno-ravers (who sound a lot like... well, urban techno-ravers). These two seemingly incompatible groups were drawn together, as I understand it, because they were both getting hassled/beaten up/jailed, &c by Maggie Thatcher's fun killer squads. Members of the two groups discovered that they had more è in common than was previously suspected, and set about teaching eachother how to groove in their unique ways. Love blossomed. A new, synthetic philosophy emerged. The zippies were born.
I think that the Rainbows ought to get along fine with the zippies, since half of the latter (so I am told) are New Age Travellers. We'll see what actually happens.
> possessionless times. Are Zippies carrying around laptops? Just where
Yes.
> are they plugging in those things? Was it Wavy Gravy who said, "the '90s
Portable photovoltaic arrays (one hopes :)
> are just like the '60s; only 30 years later."? Do Rainbow people
> continue to be non-electric? When I left for Japan in '78 microwave
> ovens were anathema. Now there's no apparent danger zone, and nary of
> word of bad about 'em. Who's in control of public opinion, anyway?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why, you are, Ed :)
-- Greg
Newsgroups: alt.culture.zippies
From: gjohnson@netcom.com (Serendipitous Freelance Hacker)
Subject: Re: Do Zippies and Rainbows mix?
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+---- eshorer@eis.calstate.edu wrote:
| [...] Was it Wavy Gravy who said, "the '90s
| are just like the '60s; only 30 years later."?
+----
I think it was "The 90's are just the 60's upsidedown" or maybe
on its head.
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