|> Sorry, I don't know if there is a way to include only Fran's
|> response in my reply, instead of both her reply and my original message
|> (which of course is in her reply).
Sure... snip out the bits you don't want to quote! make the parts you quote
as small as human*e*ly possible so that you don't annoy your potential
readers!
I agreed with your statements and then suggested that there was something
prophetic about the Sex Pistols...
|> I was not suggesting that they were prophetic in any way
|> whatsoever. They were just being as generally antagonistic as possible.
Yeah, I know. I was making the suggestion. They, the SexPistols, are
generally considered old hat or whatever by hardedged whatevers, but there
was something about that generally antagonistic message that seems to speak
very much for the social situations of today. Hence prophetic.
|> i don not think the Sex Pistols were trying to predict
|> anything. They just wanted to smash it all up.
Right. And how many out there still want to do that?
I said:
|> > The nihilistic thing that pervades youth in the 90s is the same nihilism
|> > that pervaded the 70s. Then, it was seen as totally extreme and frightening
|> > (the riots of the early 80s in the UK, for example)... now, it seems to me
|> > to have become merely yet another element of what we all live with, in big
|> > cities, particularly.
|>
|> I agree with that. It is something that we all live with, although
|> many people just choose to ignore it.
Ignoring the nihilism present in today's society is a recipie for disaster.
We had yet another riot in Montreal a few weeks ago. Street kids, "crusty"
punks. What the media, both alternative and mainstream, like to refer to as
"The Squeegee People". The police responded to 70 of their groups apology
by not bothering to show up to a meeting to discuss reparations for
damages, but by also sending out riot-gear dressed cops to three bar band
shows that attracted punk crowds last weekend.
bad moves on their part...
|> I was raised a suberban teenager in the late seventies and early
|> eighties. I have never known teenage males of any race or economic
|> class, coming from any economic climate to need an excuse to fight. They
|> seem to have been made to do just that, and have always done so, at least
|> as far as my limited historical viewpoint can determine.
It wasn't just males. More than four women were invloved, too, swinging
punches with the rest of them. They all jumped out of thier cars and
started hauling on each ohter. Rather rare occurance, one would think....
fran