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Show BOBBRUMFIELOg You've got to be polarized! ZOT Reprinted from VSl'l the Cincinnati Enquirer Sf In these times of fashionable polarization, I wish I knew what I really am. Am I a right-wing, fascist stormtrooper of the genocidal Wall Street establishment? Or am I a middle-aged, liberal, kinky-kook, revolutionary, commie, pinko, weirdo, hippie freak? Am I a bigoted, prejudiced, redneck, red-neck, hillbilly, cracker, Jew-baiting pig? Or am I a nigger-loving, radical, rock-freak queer-fag, permissive "prevert"? If I'm to believe what I hear, read, and see, I've got to join one camp or the other to find any measure of acceptance. Apparently, the only alternative is to be a nonperson these days. If you fit either of the extremist molds, you are afforded recognition by the proponents of the opposite point of view. Automatically, you become "the enemy," and, as such, are deemed worthy of attention. at-tention. If, on the other hand, you do not conform to one of the two acceptable ac-ceptable stereotypes in behavior. vehicle with a stock muffler. Why, it's as unthinkable as being seen on the street without a large dog, or wearing shoes. By the same token, it is inconceivable in-conceivable that anyone over 40 could possibly enjoy the youth-oriented youth-oriented atmosphere of a Mt. Adams pub, or wear faded, worn Levis and loafers with no socks. It is a well-known fact that the only time anyone who has experienced the Great Depression takes a break from the greedy routine of piling up material possessions is when he plays golf at his couptry club. Young people who have never experienced war want the Vietnam War to end. Older people who have lived through three or four global conflicts adore killing and destruction and are dedicated to spreading the Indochina fighting throughout all of Asia, and if possible, Africa and Europe as well. It is for this reason that all young people support McGovern and all older people support President Nixon. It is equally true that all older people have a wife and two,, who despise them and are m return, and that all youno are dope fiends, drink apple,-out apple,-out of the bottle, embrace fc-. fc-. Oriental religions, eat only r picked lettuce and skinny dipr drop of a hat. f Black is black and white sV. There are no shades of gray.p, is right and wrong is wrong. Tk is no room for divergent terpretations within one's regroup. re-group. Any manipulation ol -stereotype is worse than hens-is hens-is absolute madness. And so, I have to decided belong. There is no third chot-: mean, I can't wear a shirt vit button-down collar andap Levis anymore. I can't be servative in some things and t; in others. I'm tired of to:: outcast, living in no-man's ; without a friendly trend shelter. I think I'd pull an fe Wonderland if I could sir; " look at myself in the mirror. dress, philosophy and rhetoric, you simply are ignored; or, at best, regarded as some sort of blah semicretin undeserving of the air you breathe (clean and fresh as a result of responsive, dedicated technology; or irredeemably polluted by cynical industrial robber barons choose one). It is unthinkable that anyone under 25 might prefer suits and ties of conservative cut and pattern, enjoy the bourgeois, decadent atmosphere of a college fraternity house or listen to music devoid of protest. And surely, such an individual in-dividual (if you'll pardon the word) would never operate any motor |