If The Slacker Movement Is Over, Is It Okay If I Just Keep Going?
I'm just one of many like me, lazy types who talk like intellectuals but don't have the brain muscle to back it up. Slacker is getting old as a term, what about those of us who get left behind? I don't know what to do next, you see.
Is everyone else moving on? I discovered the slacker movement as a teenager, and felt great about it, it seemed to be stuff I could relate to, and indeed stuff I was already doing. Exciting to feel there's a movement in the world that you have membership to. Now there's less talk about it... Remember that line in Withnail & I ?
The drug dealer says "They're selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man..." signifying that it's over, the sixties is over, and hippie ideals are done with. Well, movies have had a stock slacker comic relief character for some time now, is that the same thing? I think it might be.
So the slacker movement. It was about smart-sounding folks, some of them actually smart, who didn't really want to do anything, but watched a lot of movies and read a lot of books. They would then expound on those books and movies, and the pointlessness of doing any real work. And they'd embark on projects and never finish them.
So what happened?
Somewhere along the way everybody finished their projects, and became writers, artists, or whatever?
Er... I haven't really done anything yet. I'm not ready, coach, I need to bum around for a few more years.
So I want to go to college and do film studies, I can really see myself as a cardigan-wearing film historian who thinks all the first year students fancy him, though in reality they find he reminds them of their dads. I'm hoping to circumvent growing up completely, everybody's got a goal, right? I mean the Slacker ideal is kind of bereft of goals, but as we've seen, slacker ideals are done with. So that's going to be my goal, if that's okay. I'm going to try to get through it all without ever being responsible or grown up. I've worked for years in the corporate world, and always felt like I was just playing at it. I never want to feel like I'm not playing at it.
A friend of mine promised me I could read her blog if I posted something again. This is very flattering, as it suggests to me she actually wants to read my dribblings, so I responded the only way I could; I procrastinated about it for six weeks, and then posted this non-post about nothing much at all.
Is everyone else moving on? I discovered the slacker movement as a teenager, and felt great about it, it seemed to be stuff I could relate to, and indeed stuff I was already doing. Exciting to feel there's a movement in the world that you have membership to. Now there's less talk about it... Remember that line in Withnail & I ?
The drug dealer says "They're selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man..." signifying that it's over, the sixties is over, and hippie ideals are done with. Well, movies have had a stock slacker comic relief character for some time now, is that the same thing? I think it might be.
So the slacker movement. It was about smart-sounding folks, some of them actually smart, who didn't really want to do anything, but watched a lot of movies and read a lot of books. They would then expound on those books and movies, and the pointlessness of doing any real work. And they'd embark on projects and never finish them.
So what happened?
Somewhere along the way everybody finished their projects, and became writers, artists, or whatever?
Er... I haven't really done anything yet. I'm not ready, coach, I need to bum around for a few more years.
So I want to go to college and do film studies, I can really see myself as a cardigan-wearing film historian who thinks all the first year students fancy him, though in reality they find he reminds them of their dads. I'm hoping to circumvent growing up completely, everybody's got a goal, right? I mean the Slacker ideal is kind of bereft of goals, but as we've seen, slacker ideals are done with. So that's going to be my goal, if that's okay. I'm going to try to get through it all without ever being responsible or grown up. I've worked for years in the corporate world, and always felt like I was just playing at it. I never want to feel like I'm not playing at it.
A friend of mine promised me I could read her blog if I posted something again. This is very flattering, as it suggests to me she actually wants to read my dribblings, so I responded the only way I could; I procrastinated about it for six weeks, and then posted this non-post about nothing much at all.
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