Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under its influence, federal quality controls, severe penalties for illegal pushing, and excise taxes to further discourage impecunious youthful purchasers. Such a policy would roughly parallel the nation's present attitude toward alcohol and tobacco, and one tobacco company executive confides: "A cigarette concern would have to be pretty stupid if it weren't looking into marijuana...
...what the film says at all. The good guys are portrayed as sensitive loner types: they know grass isn't addictive: they're nice to girls: they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys are resentful barbarians, who pick on the good guys for no reason and make stupid jokes ("They look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.") Easy Rider's tacked-on message, built to remit all intellectual sins, reminds one in its ludicrousness of Hollywood's concept of the "anti-war" film. Inevitably these films will conclude with a ringing condemnation...
...underprivileged," we are "made to feel that it is all our fault." The modern reluctance to judge makes it more offensive than ever before to call a man a liar; thus there is a "credibility gap" instead. No up-to-date teacher would dare refer to a child as "stupid" or a "bad student"; the D+ student is invariably an "underachiever" or a "slow learner...
...hell, Jean did it, and she seemed to be a really fine girl herself! Damn, could they all be bitches? What if Susan didn't like the way he talked, or what he said, or what he wore, or what he looked like? What if he did something stupid? She'd pull the same damn trick!... noh, probably not, she was too sober to have developed that kind of thing to the art that Jean had-she'd probably come up with some ridiculous bullshit that Martin would see through immediately! And what would he do then? Yeah, what would...
...expect to be impressed with Harvard for about two and a half weeks. Long before that time, you will have stopped comparing college boards (the other guy's are always embarrassingly higher), and by the end of your first month, you will begin to wonder how so many stupid people ever managed to get into the place. By that time, you're playing one of the freshman's more amusing games, one called "He got in Because..." Because of Geographical Distribution. Because His Father Went Here...