Subject: Re: I Wanna Be Sedated...
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 07:14:55 GMT
'... I think it's enough to say that the man's credited with
creating the ultra-countercultural movement, punk rock ...'
I BEG your pardon.
Like penicillin, the sundered lithium atom, the cavity
magnetron, Newtonian physics, Humeian philosophy,
& the Cumberland sausage, punk rock was not an American
invention - but BRITISH. And as even the most brutish
Louisiana swamp dweller knows - as even *I* know -
its onlie begetter was Sid Vicious, he of the Sex Pistols.
But not only do you reveal the extreme parochialism of
your world view, Cecilia, you're now beginning to show
your age. ('Ah, you'll never know la douceur de la vie
if you didn't know the Seventies ....')
Do you REALLY think humanity changes from generation
to generation? Little Davy Brooks doing his 'survey' in
Princeton sounds as sweetly gullible as Margaret Meade
with her Booboogaloo Islanders. 'Seek & ye shall find -
whatever it was you were hoping to find in the first place...'
Human being remain the same old conforming drears they've
been from Day One. For every two moderately original
souls who set the tone there are twenty four thousand whose
only wish - whose only ability - is to follow whatever happens
to be the current wave. When you - all those years ago - were
bravely defying your parents you did so, I'm pretty sure, in strict
conformity with whatever was acceptable to your peer group.
How many of your fellow 'rebels' thought of joining the American
Nazi Party or the KKK or, even, the junior branch of the GOP
in token of true rebellion? Or wear a three-piece suit, or a decent
dress - when all about were stuffing dead daffs in their hair?
Not many, old Cec, not many.
Don't fret over the Organisation Kids - they're no more
a real entity & represent no more a genuine attitude than any
of their predecessors (except insofar as unimaginatinve
compliance has always been the human norm.) We're going
to have to depend, as ever, on the true odd bods - who cannot
be forecast or captured in any old amateur sociological survey.
(By another of those guys who hope sheer weight of verbiage
will give an impression of seriousness.)
Scottie B.
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