Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Revenge of the Slackers I notice the term 'dirty fucking hippies' being thrown around a lot these days among the petit pundits buzzing around the comments at Eschaton  and needs some deconstructing lest it becomes overbuilt. Hip is a bleaching of term 'hep' or 'hepcat' which is a person wised in the particular American reality of hate and jazz. To the hippie knowing is the way to becoming. The swinging sixties, man. The 'dirty fucking' part of the meme is something that would just never appear, not even on the lips of the most depraved hippie type hillbilly redneck biker trash. In those days all fucking was dirty by definition, no more so than when they themselves are doing it bareback. Fade to black, bring up the laugh track. I never really held much to the notion of generational politics, it always struck me as a bending of the facts to fit the meme, opinions being much too diverse for the sampling technologs by breaking into quintiles by decade of birth, but that was the science of the day. Cruelty and grueling exploitation were the result, there's really no other use for numbers, than to count the losses. Not that it's gone out of heavy rotation, even if it's gone out of style. The culture assassins were ready with their Big Chills and Gen-X's but went too far with the whole Slacker thing. That must have hurt bad, real bad.In every generation, the work is where you find it, or don't. If laziness really equated with employmentation, we'd all be out of work.   5:48:45 PM    comment