-Caveat Lector-
On 20 Feb 99, , Prudence wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 2/19/99 5:57:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> << Now the younger generation, in their late teens-early 20s now, are
> something else.
> You might see some action from them yet.
>
>
> sno0wl >>
>
> Your evaluation while grim was right on. I got a little hope from that last
> line. Can you add a bit. Prudy
GRRRrrrrrrrr.... I hate it when I write a long reply and lose it when my computer
freezes
up !!@@###!!!!. Let's see if I can reconstruct....
What I had in mind was the hordes of kids on the West Coast. Annual Festivals like
The Burning Man in the Southwest (?) attract thousands of them. They live "alternative"
lifestyles focusing on everything from herbalism to shaminism, music, ecology and
who knows what all else. They're anti-corporate and probably more into innovation and
creating new ways around the systems than protest against the system. But I think
they do tend to focus on something that interests them through which they can project
change.
Something seems to have happened to discourage large-scale protest such as we had
in the 60s and 70s and this has led to a new sort of tribalism. Perhaps because of the
way lobbying is done in Washington, people have organized over narrow, specific
interests and issues, feeling that this is the only way they can effect change.But
younger folks on the West Coast seem generally to be more active and energized
....while the Northeast tends to focus on issues of race and poverty. And most of the
issues of injustice seem to center on race and poverty.
This might because the young middle class sees the corporate world as open to them
still and offering big opportunities....not really believing that this will close down
for
most of them by the time they're 45....and by that time, they're too bogged down in
responsibilities and survival issues to expend a lot of energy protesting.
The new corporate strategy seems to be Use 'em up and Toss 'em Away....but what
young person aiming for a job that starts at $35-40K believes that this is is going to
happen to them? It plays on the "normal" arrogance of the young. And it seems to be
working.
sno0wl
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