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.