Decius wrote:
]
] Obviously you were never a skater. Skateboarding is not at all
] anything like roller blading. Roller Blading is an extension
] of roller skating, which is something that 12 year old girls
] do at birthday parties. It started as a way to practice hockey
] in the summer time, which is about as mainstream as you can
] get.
]
] Skateboarding is a subculture that, like graffiti, seeks to
] repurpose the utilitarian urban landscape for a creative,
] artistic endeavor. Hacking is very similar is its purpose. In
] fact, Goldstein once wrote that he figured out that hacking
] was cool when he realized how similar it was to skateboarding.
] ] Skateboarding and hacking both fit into a zone of moral
] ambiguity. They are neither "good" nor are they clearly
] "evil." Baby Boomers, on the whole, are very abstract in their
] thinking and they like moral absolutes. They like things to be
] either right or wrong. ("With us or against us.") Our
] generation latched onto things like skateboarding and hacking
] when we where going though our rebellious stage of personality
] development because they put us in places that adults had
] difficultly fitting into their world view. These are
] subcultures that perfectly exploit a weakness in the dominant
] Baby Boomer conceptions of how things work. They couldn't
] support skateboarding, but clearly it was wrong to oppose it
] as well. Moral ambiguity is not something that Baby Boomers
] can parse.
]] Its subtle. You missed it. She is rail sliding down a phone
] cable over a barbed wire fence.
] out at a screening
] of "HaXXXor" as you and I would be hanging out at a screening
] of various films from gaymagix.com...

Either that, or they're referencing "Hackers" the movie...

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