almost cut my hair

i used to have long hair. if you graduated high school any time in the 70's, yes 70's, you had long hair. all you have to do is look at yearbooks from that era. i know the whole hippie thing started in the sixties but you can't tell from a yearbook. but the seventies....that was a different story. everybody from the freaks to jocks[ thats the way we talked, really] grew their hair long and wild. it was before the big hair bands, the mousse, styling your locks. i think disco had a hand in this new look, damn disco. we, at least most of us, were anti fashion. we wore the same clothes, day after day, our hair just grew, anywhich way.salvation army was our old navy. madison avenue had co-opted the movement. they couldn't sell us anything, we weren't buying. of course we were naive to think it would last. it only took a generation or two to become slaves to the marketplace. now they have us, hooked on the latest, have to have it, sneakers that cost more than our old speakers, televisions that could pass for an suv and phones that become obsolete before we can figure out how to use them. i don't have alot of hair left, at least on my head, but i'm thinking of growing it again. maybe a moustache too! my own private protest. i know its like tilting at windmills. historically dissent has never been looked upon too positively. against the war? unamerican, demand clean air?, leftist wacko..expect honesty in politics? yah, right. ita okay though, i'd rather march to a different drummer than join their band....its probably disco anyways....what is so funny about peace, love and understanding anyways? i''ll ask my elvis, you can ask yours....jc