From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Sep 12 1999 - 01:21:07 MDT
Once again, Robert J. Bradbury has presented us with a number of
thought provoking and entertaining notions, including:
> ...If we hadn't elected Clinton, I feel pretty sure we would
> be teaching creationism in most of the class rooms now...
Which floored me. And got me to thinking, it is a curious
habit for generations of humans to want to be *known* for
something. The baby boom generation has rock and roll,
generation X is big on [fill in the blank], generation Y
likes to pierce body parts, etc, but what is next? In each
case, a generation distinguishes themselves from the previous
generation in a way that may shock and dismay the parents.
Right? We smash the idols of our elders. So what is next?
In keeping with Alex Bokov's earlier post, what if generation [Z?]
coming of age in 2005 turns hard against technology? Perhaps
it will become wicked cool to be rad retro, to disdain all the computer
wizardry that we on this list find so... wicked cool. I am not offended
by green hair, ratty clothing, piercing, *any* expression of sexuality,
etc, but the disdain and rejection of science and technology by a
generation of young people would cause me to be...
squicked. spike
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