Are you serious? Recycling as equivalent to the threat of losing
ones job because, say,  you signed a petition to support the
Spanish Republic against Franco?
  Being thrifty in some yuppie circles got to be so trendy a
few years ago a "Voluntary Simplicity" movement emerged.
With all the recquisite workshops, newsletters and books
to tell you what your great grandparents knew.
                                   Michael Pugliese

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Ed Burns <[log in to unmask]> Wrote on
Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:32:55 -0700
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Hi There,

One of the darkest periods in American History for me is the
McCarthy
era.  I wasn't born until twenty some years until after it was
all over,
but I'm very fascinated by the whole thing.  I often wonder,
what is
today's equivalent of "being a communist", in the red scare sense?
 Is
there anything today that carries the same stigma as being (or
associating with) a communist, did back then?

The only thing I can come up with is being thrifty, not whole-heartedly
embracing the belief that you need to consume as much as possible.
 I'm
sure there are other ideas.

Ed


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