gilded youth
Scottie Bowman (bowman@mail.indigo.ie)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 10:36:55 +0000
Camille writes that she would like to `toy' with some of my raised
points. I find the prospect both delightful & at the same time
slightly alarming.
However. My excitement quickly collapses when she writes:
`...One thing I do know is as I've gotten older I've found it
exponentially more difficult to be creative...'
This sounds distinctly ominous. Barely out of her teens -
& already finding her creativity unresponsive to the whip.
I wonder if her energies have been drained by the effort to rouse
up all those dozy adolescents ?
They sound an even feebler bunch than the average crowd
of teenagers - brain washed by `society', browbeaten into apathetic
conformity.... I realise this is the pervading ethos of the vast
majority of 13-19 year olds, but - for Cripes sake - she tells
us they were members of a drama class ! The Young Oliviers
de nos jours, huh ?
Incidentally, Camille, telling people to fuck off IS the convention
expected of this age group. Usually uttered in a surly, listless,
baffled, apologetic mumble.
Scottie B.