I recently looked up the obituary of someone who went to highschool with and found out when he died he worked the coal regeneration plant in the town where I grew up. It is actually owned by a Canadian company that does some kind of internet bitcoin type operation. What’s interesting though is that the use of language has become wayyyy more restrictive. We can no longer call plants invasive is something I found as part of a liberal movement to gentrify their own bad behavior. It works both ways but I’m also gen x cusp millennial with the soulof a boomer. Sorry boomer! Actually one of my favorite pieces you wrote recently along with superrecognizer because I am one of those too!
I recently looked up the obituary of someone who went to highschool with and found out when he died he worked the coal regeneration plant in the town where I grew up. It is actually owned by a Canadian company that does some kind of internet bitcoin type operation. What’s interesting though is that the use of language has become wayyyy more restrictive. We can no longer call plants invasive is something I found as part of a liberal movement to gentrify their own bad behavior. It works both ways but I’m also gen x cusp millennial with the soulof a boomer. Sorry boomer! Actually one of my favorite pieces you wrote recently along with superrecognizer because I am one of those too!
Our "sellout" behaviors in the 90's seem almost quaint in comparison to the modern shit show.
i think "corruphobia"-- fear of corruption--is a truer phrase for the gen x punk trauma. but pretty meh as a catchphrase. gonna workshop it.
Appreciate this a lot, Sam. Me and the other D.C. punks have used this phrase for years without knowing the origins. And: Ouch.
Does this exist for British Gen X punks? Or is it a kind of North American puritanism?