Re: young orthodoxies
Prufrock33@aol.com
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 16:23:47 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 7/18/1998 11:41:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bowman@mail.indigo.ie writes:
<< the wonder is usually the technical mastery rather
than the newness of the soil being broken >>
So let's just keep recycling old ideas in new technically advanced ways.
Looking at the same old things in a different fashion, that is like saying
nothing new exists unless we create it. I think you have been rereading books
for too long. I take offense to what you say and can only say you are wrong in
almost every sense of the word.
<<young people themselves are surprisingly unoriginal. In youth,
we tend to be terribly conventional in our thinking. It may have
the spurious look of rebellion & defiance to our elders but it
usually stays well within the confines of the current peer group
fashion>>
I think you know no one I would like to meet. I believe that you are making a
generalization that is so dangerous that someone could Damn you straight to
Hell for the simple idea of it. If youth is unoriginal and age is original,
then let me die before 24. In youth, WE (??) tend to be terribly conventional
in our thinking? You are saying we all just follow the Crowd and do as the
Crowd pleases, eh? Zombies? Just follow our peer groups and try our best to
stay in with today's Fads. Yes, and businessmen everywhere wake up every Damn
morning and drink coffee and put on ties and drive to jobs, come home and
watch television and die. Give me a break, Scottie. Every youth I know
creates. Maybe I just surround myself with exceptions, and maybe so, but if
there are exceptions then how can you make a Generalization?
No, let's refrain from free-thought and the resurgence of New Ideas...let's
just play the same movie over and over again, this time backwards, this time
without sound, this time with a black background, this time fast forward.
Give me a better resolve then this.
Angie