From: kcalder@blueyonder.co.uk   
      
   In message <1986a2df.0501281526.46c8b9ac@posting.google.com>, FixinDixon   
    writes   
   >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.   
      
   I have a lot of friends who are into active resistance, but somehow I'm   
   not so sure.  Personally I'm as interested in the benefits of   
   globalization and free market capitalism as I am in anarcho-syndicalism   
   and participatory economics.  I do tend to boycott almost all   
   high-street shops, and I'd rather shop at a farmers market than a   
   supermarket when possible, but I do these more because they suit me in   
   terms of price and quality of goods than because I have my eye on some   
   higher ideal.  Similarly, the character of all the creative things that   
   I do probably has more to do with me venting my hatred for the mediocre   
   mainstream, than actively, consciously following an agenda of   
   anti-establishment resistance.   
      
   Now, I'd be the first to claim that I'm not a "cyberpunk", because I'd   
   rather use the word as an adjective describing a particular historical   
   literary movement, and when I'm forced to use it as a noun it is only to   
   describe a peculiar, neo-goth, aesthetic sub-culture that I feel no   
   allegiance to whatsoever.   
      
   But, I would argue that most of the protagonists in cp novels, like me,   
   tend to act in a way that looks like anti-corporate, anti-establishment   
   behaviour, but don't tend to be aiming for high ideals, and rather   
   maintain a healthy concern for their own survival.   
      
   zip,   
   --   
   Kevin Calder   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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