From: bogus@mail.com   
      
   Read my post over next door in the "Not Cyberpunk" thread.   
      
   To "take sides" is likely to get you crushed in the current social /   
   political milieu in the Corporate States of America.   
      
   Consider what impact the "free love, hippie, flower power" movement of   
   the late 1960s / early 1970s has had on current social / political   
   movements.   
      
   Corporate welfare is at an all time high while relatively speaking the   
   poor are poorer. Yet the growth of the "corporate state" has allowed   
   such fashion statements as the "CP of the 90's" to flourish.   
      
   Living in "Bohemia" is not a political statement nor a social   
   statement. It is what it is-- whether that is art, literature, or a   
   state of existance remains to beseen.   
      
   The likelihood that "bohemia" will ever take control of the   
   sociao-political machinery is nil. Face that. Get over it. Then go   
   ahead and do whatever makes you happy. Just remember that unless you   
   "sell out" [an old CP tradition] you will not survive the attentions   
   the State can bring to bear on you.   
      
   bohemia in amerika still survives if only barely. They can [and   
   probably will] make everything illegal but so far they cannot prevent   
   a mind from thinking its own thoughts.   
      
   the ded one   
      
   On 31 Jan 2005 01:20:51 -0800, "FixinDixon"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Right, so that's a no then...!!   
   >   
   >I'm just trying to put CP into some sort of context that I can easily   
   >understand.  To revisit Plato, have we emerged from the cave?  Are we   
   >anywhere near the exit?  Do we intend to return to the cave (probably a   
   >personal choice)?   
   >   
   >By a unified goal within CP, I refer to the standard definition of CP   
   >that people keep producing - against "the man" but doing what I want to   
   >along the way.  So, as a cohesive unit, we probably don't really exist   
   >in any real sense, yet we do share a common philosophy.  Is this a   
   >fundemental difference between us, as a social group, and [other]   
   >anti-establishment social groups?   
   >Anyway, here's to philosophical questions!  Cheers!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)