ok.. so my friend, Cool Dude Penny Lane, is really rad so yeah.. she says "Fuck you bitch i own you" she really means i Love you cause ya.. so ya... Dude... she tells yalll to dance naked in the street and something about the Sky...so ya! I LOVE YOU DUDDDEEE!
linguistic drift is why old fuddy duddys become old fuddy duddys who prefer to mutter amonst themselves. sooner or later you give up on trying to keep up with it and ask yourself why you ever bothered to in the first place. of course the reason for bothering to is to have some idea what the people you've left to run the world you live in are up to. and of course it happens in the first place so young people can have some tiney bit of privacy from the prying ears of their elders. and so it goes. i just wish the direction of cultural and linguistic drift over much of the past 20 or 30 years didn't sound so damd condoning of violence oriented. my own generation's was born in the context of post wwii and so of course tended in the direction opposite the prevailing context and thus toward more rather then less mellowness. well the 80s was the reversal reaction to that of which late 80s 'gangsta' 'hip hop' was part and pacel' but when the hell is the reversal of THAT supposed to come along? goth was a little bit of one but kind of a feeble one though. i mean we have such a veneer of condoning of quasiparaviolence context now, isn't some kind of reversal the real mellowness once again way long overdue? (or have i just become too fosslized to recognize it?)
I wholeheartedly agree that a reversal is overdue, but I really don't see it happening soon. The general overlying attitude of young people (GENERAL, not everybody, but esp. in the US) is one of more anger, hostility, and 'the world owes me something'. That along with the popular hip-hop culture that has spread to all classes and walks-of-life seems to perpetuate that attitude, along with the current political cloud of events. just what I see from ny little spot on the map