The thing that I see that scares me the lack of room for disagreement, if you dont agree with us, you're one of 'them' whoever them is. Hell, "if you dont agre

The thing that I see that scares me the lack of room for disagreement, if you dont agree with us, you're one of 'them' whoever them is. Hell, "if you dont agree with us, you're one of 'them'" is okay, so long as people remain cordial and just chill. I had that while at grad school at the University of South Carolina. The traddies, folkies, world music people, eastern religious nuts, African drum people, neo-hippies, goths, metal-heads, Harley motorcycle people, punks,... I could go on. We all hung out together. We even got into arguments and tried to point out how the other was deluded and screwed up, and we still hung out together. I guess it's easy if you're a small group of fringers in a sea of mainstream people. When the fringe gets too big, it starts to develop social pathologies of its own. I think the Bay Area fringe is more prone to such pathologies than average.