Dahlia: Bodaciousness, Audacity, Outrageousness, Harbin

Bodaciousness, audacity, outrageousness, and so much more, were 'in the air' in the late 1960s and the 1970s.

"Let's protest the American War in Vietnam, by bringing significant numbers of Vietnamese refugees to the US, to protect their lives." And then it happens.

"Let's protest war in general." And mortality from war in the intervening years has dropped dramatically {for a complex of reasons}.

"Let's protest centuries of racism in the U.S." So thousands of people go to the south to change this history. Forty years later, Obama gets elected.

"Let's go to India overland from London." "Tomorrow?" "Yes." "How are we going to get across the English channel?" "Sailboat." And the hippie trail develops . . .





Harbin Hot Springs emerges from this time. And Harbin - nominally Harbinger University at the time in the 1960s - was probably pretty psychedelic. See Ellen Klages' Harbin book.

So a virtual Harbin might emerge into this...


How can the infectiousness of those ideas of the 1960s and 1970s - the great and beneficial ones - grow in people's minds today, to transform things for the better?

And why were these ideas so infectious at that time?

There were major protests in every major city in the West, often against wrong-doing by governments. Freedom seeking was in the air.



And Harbin is still around, and might emerge in-world, in a virtual world. :)


Harbin pools ahead . . .