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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's with the plastics comment?[/quote]

it's a classic quote from a classic [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/]movie[/url][/quote]

Its from the "Graduate" circa 1968-69.  It was kind of a double entendre in the hippie/new age era. Dustin Hoffman was a straight laced kid who was just graduating from college. He was at kind of a stuffed shirt throw back to the 50s cocktail party. During an awkward uncomfortable conversation with a Xerox/Kodak/IBM middle-management type guy wearing a plaid polyester blazer and Double-Windsor knotted tie the gentle in an unsolicited way told Dustin Hoffman that "plastics" was the the business of the future and the business in which Hoffman should make his career.

The double-entendre can be found in the fact that an over-the-hill paunchy middle aged guy was telling this young man who had many questions about himself, society, and his future that he should mindlessly peruse the same kind of seemingly meaningless life in a 30 year old technology and become one more conforming establishment guy as was this paunchy man in his polyester plaid blazer standing before him.

The second half of the double-entendre was the for the hippie/new age youth of the 60s plastics were synonymous with being phony and dishonest. Dishes which were once hand-tossed and made from ceramics were now made of plastics. Clothes which were on e made of cotton and wool were now being made from polyester. Thousands of goods which were once made by artisans from natural material were now being mass produced in high-pressure injection plastics molding machines.

At any rate the word plastic became synonymous with everything the hippies viewed as being phony about the society in which we lived and the goods in which we purchased and consumed. [/quote]

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