Matt Hughes wrote:

On 11 Oct, 17:31, nos... at (no spam) nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote:


Back in the Golden Age of Usenet, I remember some guy telling the story
of how when he was in college in and the sixties, he and his friends
started
an organization of "Druids" that was strictly an excuse to get drunk,
take drugs, and fuck, nothing more. They even wrote up some sort of
holy book to go with it. Many years later, he returned to campus as
an alumnus, and discovered to his horror that the chapter of "Druids"
still existed, but the stupid kids *actually believed in it*. It was
definately a successor organization, because he recognized their holy
writ as the one he wrote, but they had someone managed to make it no
fun anymore.

In a similar vein, in 1968 at then fairly radicalized Simon Fraser
University I was part of a little street theater group that
masqueraded as an unabashedly fascist party. We wore sunglasses and
armbands with the three-triangle radiation symbol, saluted each other
flamboyantly, and ran for office in the student elections so that we
could give bombastic speeches about the need for order and faith in
the authorities. Just before the election, we staged a public
assassination of our leader (blank pistols). One day, I was in the
cafeteria frequented by the science and economic students, giving out
some scurrilous broadsheet that was cribbed from Mussolini speeches.
Several of the short-hairs asked how they could join.

We disbanded.

Shades of the children's novel "The Wave"!