Especially In Local Elections, Because Hardly Anybody

I Don't Know Whether I See It As Slipping Inside The Villains, But Part Of What Makes Ralph Nader And Michael Moore Such Effective Speakers And Communicators Is That They Know How Corporate Culture Works, How Our Lawmaking Bodies Really Work, And Where The Bones Are Buried.

I Got Out Of That Immediately Was That Now, All Of A Sudden, Rock Music Had Become A Spectator Sport, That Corporate Labels And Their Bands Were The New Establishment, And Punk Was There To Fight Them The Way The Activist Hippies Must Have Fought What The Establishment Must Have Been Ten Years Before. And It Was Interesting To See The Reactions In Different Parts Of The Country.

I'm Appalled At How Many People My Age, Or Even Five Or Ten Years Younger, Have No Tangible Memories Of Important History That Happened When We Were Growing Up.

From The Beginning, There Was So Much Pressure In The Early San Francisco Punk Scene For Everyone To Be Different Than Everyone Else, To Flaunt Your Intelligence And Insights Instead Of Every Band Sounding Alike, Like What Plagues Punk Music In Particular Today.

I Think One Of The Beauties So Far Of The So-called Spirit Of Seattle Is There Aren't Any Leaders, Pop Stars, Or Guru Figures That Everyone Else Is Falling In Line With And Following. No [nelson] Mandela, Havel, Or Subcomandante Ski Mask Riding In On A White Horse And Everybody Else Just Wanting To Follow Them To The Promised Land. We're Stitching It Together And Doing It Ourselves.