> Matt Hughes wrote:

>> On 11 Oct, 17:31, nos...@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"!