YASID American Hippie/Freak Puritans
- From: "Joseph T Major" <jtmajor@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 18:09:24 -0400
This was a story in the sixties, by, I am thinking, Brian Aldiss:
A British scholar goes on a research trip to America to study American
society. He stays with a family called the "Grissums".
The Grissums are as free and hip as sixties society makes it; he sleeps
with their daughter with their permission if not outright approval, for
example. They use drugs and in general are liberated sixties people.
As the British scholar leaves, he mentions that they are Puritans. They
are shocked, no no they are liberated, hip, nonjudgmental types, they can't
be Puritans.
But the scholar explains that Puritans are people who want to force
their moral view on you. Didn't matter what the view WAS.
Anyone remember this?
Joseph T Major
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