Zenon wrote
quoted 1 line Hence the black U.S. subculture serves as >creative cauldron, while white> Hence the black U.S. subculture serves as >creative cauldron, while white
youth adopt black >slang and fashions, along with music.While the >person in
difficult conditions needs that creative >outlet as self-definition,
self-realization, and so >on. It's the rare person who can keep the
quoted 1 line creative demon alive in conditions of comfort. >Conflict and adversity>creative demon alive in conditions of comfort. >Conflict and adversity
(not to mention impending >execution) focus the mind quite remarkably.
i agree totally...but i think in todays society ..especially america...there
is a good deal of suffering and reaching and adversity even outside of the
inner city...it's a consumerist society that is always waving a goodie in
front of our faces..so i would venture to say that it's not only the ghetto
youth who are cultural builders, but even those in the suburbs where there is
a large faceless from of oppression...cold, impersonal and sublime....a lack
of community and reliance on the automobile and just general modernized
slavery... the whole electronic "explosion" is a symptom and result of this (
imo)...see raves and what not... MANY of us are in difficult positons...
at least in the inner city, though...there's a community and a
neighborhood.....suburbia is so isolating...and the reward punishment
syndrome...blah blah blah...i live in the city now..:)
but let us just leave it at poverty is the stuff that dreams are made of.
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