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   Omixochitl to FixinDixon   
   Re: Taking Sides... or not?   
   29 Jan 05 21:56:51   
   
   From: omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   m.butcher@liv.ac.uk (FixinDixon) wrote in   
   news:1986a2df.0501281526.46c8b9ac@posting.google.com:   
      
   > As alleged cyberpunks (or people who can see past this haven's current   
   > incarnation as a posting board for porn links), I suppose we have some   
   > role to play in the anti-establisment/anti-corporate movement.   
   >   
   > Having just blasted my way around a few sites (mostly as a result of   
   > visiting Culture Jammer), I guess you could say that there's a   
   > concerted effort to undermine the authoritaty of the state, or at   
   > least ensure that the public opinion is at least heard, if not   
   > listened to.   
   >   
   > Since we are a literary movement, each of us privately scribbling   
   > words down somewhere, gleaning inspiration from our towns and cities,   
   > do we owe any allegiance to these anti-establishment groups?  As   
   > "punks", I suppose it is arguable that we do - after all, we all came   
   > from the same 1960s-70s stock.  The new anti-establishment groups seem   
   > very much into using technology to promote themselves.  Discussions   
      
   Depends on which anti-establishment groups and which parts of the   
   establishment they're against.  Heck, I've even seen "honour killings"   
   both condemned by anti-establishment peeps and defended by anti-   
   -establishment peeps in the same society...   
      
   > about clothing and such have shown us that we lack a unified   
   > collective - some utilising the Matrix-style, others a grunge look,   
   > some a conforming style (various individuals may be interested to know   
   > I have since acquiesced and purchased a GAP jumper - and it did hurt).   
   >  We do share a common goal - working against the state/corporations   
   > whilst doing our own thing.   
      
   Do we?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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