At 12:23 AM -0800 1/30/01, petro wrote:
Kids born in years between large bumps end up caught on the edge - perpetually too old for the ones behind, too young to ever be accepted in the society born before them.
That more or less happens these days - there is a sort of lost generation born between the late 1950s & about 1970 who managed to be the first age cohort in 200 years who were poorer than their parents, at least in Britain (where else did punk rock come from?)
Long Island.
The Ramones.
The explanation for this came from a band that is not primarily punk, The Tubes: "White punks on dope." --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns