On Dec 8, 2003, at 11:08 AM, Freematt357@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/7/2003 10:58:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, timcmay@got.net writes:
My generation was very active, on all sides. The droids born after about 1980 are mainly followers. Probably what the nose rings are for.
Hey Tim, why don't you continue your activism and make an attempt to get your writing into more places where generation X might find it. If they are truly droids surely you with your grand intellect could be become their pied piper, leading their revolution.
You might feel better venting to the cloistered culture here on CP, but what good does that do?
I'm not interested in trying to get published in "Down with WTO Times" or "Skateboard Magazine," or whatever it is that these kids are reading. (Actually, I don't think most of them do much reading. I spend a lot of time in the great bookstores in Santa Cruz--rarely do I see the "persons of piercing" leave their hangouts out on Pacific Avenue to enter the bookstores, except to try to use the restrooms.) And the problem is not even so much with Gen X but with Gen Y, or whatever they are being called these days. I reach who I reach. Their choice to read what I write. I see an explosion of Blogs, the daily musings of people involved in EPIC, EFF, etc. This is similar to the explosion of personal Web pages several years ago, when home pages had snippets of philosophy, lists of books people had read, etc. (And perhaps just as so many of these personal Web pages fell into disrepair and were seldom looked-at by others, the wave of personal Blogs will crest and then decline in amplitude.) So, you are free to be "Matt Gaylor, Activist!" and to try to get articles published in "Liberty" or "Gold Currency Times" or wherever you get published, but I have other things I'd rather be doing. Preaching to me that I ought to be sacrificing my time for the betterment of some skatepunks by publishing in "Piercing Magazine" is the silliest kind of altruistic thinking. --Tim May