File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9907, message 632


From: "Sean Gallagher" <sean-AT-iweeklabs.com>
Subject: Explode This ( was RE: An Explosive End For Woodstock '99)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:51:24 -0400


As a leading edge gen x'r (Pong versus Nintendo wave), I hereby throw down
the gauntlet.
1. Carp, you're rightGenX was the 80's-early 90's youth demographic. The
current crowd is what some stupid demographers call the "millenials"--the
coddled spawn of boomers. It's the boomers' fault for raising them that way.
Hey, Weiss, you reap what you sew.
2. Jerald, when did the baby boomers _ever_ sustain sensible judgement? Tell
me, please!
2. Weiss, you are obviously sooooo genuine. . .I bet you have an original
Speed Racer lunchbox, too. And I'm sure the way you dressed made your
parents' generation want to puke, too. Not that I'm going to defend the
materialistic millenial spawn you mislabel as "gen X'rs" ( see 3), but your
"peace and love" shit evaporated pretty fast once boomers became
establishment, didn't it? Former Yippies turned stock brokers, former
squatters chasing the homeless off the streets to make sure they don't scare
away patrons of their new age candle and t-shirt shops. . .
Criminal culture has become cool because boomers stripped all the
credibility out of what they saw the "counterculture" as being. Boomers were
the ones who were selling the Woodstock Visa cards, no doubt.
Yes, I'm sure Woodstock '69 was "the real thing". I couldn't make it, as I
just shy of 5 years old at the time, but I'm sure it was at least 25% of
what it was advertised to be. But it was the cultural juggernaut created by
the Woodstock generation that has forced everything since down our throats,
so don't forget it.
. .


Flame complete. Damn, I'm losing that old vitriol. Now that I'm major league
petit bourgois AND a gen X'r, I can't say "Die Yuppie Scum" with as straight
a face as I used to.  .  .


->-----Original Message-----
->From: owner-anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
->[mailto:owner-anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of
->danceswithcarp
->Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 6:37 PM
->To: Jerald Hellemeyer
->Cc: The Usual Suspects
->Subject: Re: An Explosive End For Woodstock '99 (Burning and Looting)
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->On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jerald Hellemeyer wrote:
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->> >The
->> >peace-loving culture of the '60's (in which I grew up) is dead. This
->> >generation X seems incapable of sustaining sensible judgment.
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->> Looking at the past through rose colored glasses are we?
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->Gen X was 5 or 6 years ago.   We are seeing Gen Y in their prime.  I think
->the next one up is the "Next Generation," and Pepsi Cola owns the rights.
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->Weiss and his Golden Era of Peace, Love, and Cheap Dope must mean he's
->like me: I'm finally old enough that I can remember things the way I
->wanted them to be.
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->But that's nothing, really; Bart and Goat can remember things that never
->happened.
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->carp
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->ps;  goat? post me if you get this.  Some of me missives seem to be
->vanishing into the ethers.
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->It's ether that or I'm dreaming I'm durnk.
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