Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >So what's wrong with the teenage rebellion is that it is about consumption >rather than challenging capitalism. It's about a lot of things. William Finnegan's piece in the New Yorker last year about that godforsaken distant LA suburb - which is in a recently published collection of his stuff, I think - showed a broad spectrum of rebellion, from your basic sexdrugsrockandroll kind to a very politicized kind, with the politicized kind ranging from Nazi to deeply egalitarian and anti-racist. There are rockers, rappers, and zinesters all over the USA who are about a lot more than mere consumption. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of the political memoir Red Dirt, talks about all kinds of rebels in rural Oklahoma, kids who are the unacknowledged descendants of the Wobblies who were big there before they were killed and exiled. One reason teen rebellion takes an apolitical consumerish form is that we grownup have done a terrible job with politics. There's a lot going on out there, outside the realm of approved public discourse. Doug
