Re: Kerouac
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 14:58:56 -0800 (PST)
---helena kim <helena@apollo.netsoc.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Emily Friedman wrote:
>
> > ---Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu wrote:
> > >
> > > >They all leached off
> > > >relatives and they had no ambition.
> > >
> > > generation x anyone?
> > >
> > Yeah well generation X is pretty much an old fad.
>
> and the relevance is?
>
> i think matthew saying that your description of the whole 'on the
road'
> scene reminded him of the 'generation x' phenomenon.
>
> what do you mean by it's 'an old fad'?
>
> do you mean that it's really not a 90s thing and that you think it
> goes back to kerouac? or do you mean it's old, as in it's not a
> buzz word anymore, and hence doesn't exist?
>
> i'm confused again (i really should get out more),
>
> :helena kim
>
> helena at netsoc dot tcd dot ie
> 'the church is near, but the road is icy.
> the bar is far, but i will walk carefully.'
> - russian proverb
>
> What I meant Helena was that when I was in middle school the whole
generation x thing was very publicized and talked about but recently
it pretty much has faded. Also I have not witness a generation full of
disallusioned slackers in the 90s. On the contrary I think that it has
been the opposite. There are incredibly large amounts of young
successful adults. Every generation will have some slackers but that
does not reflect on the whole majority. The generation x ideology was
pretty much created by the media and entertainment industry.
-Liz Friedman
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