Re: virus: Angry young Men
red_mist (red_mist@portsurfer.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:39:00 +0100
In message <353E11F6.3B8AC7B9@ma.ultranet.com>, Sodom
<sodom@ma.ultranet.com> writes
>Over the last few days i have been seeing a lot of what I call, and
>there is probably another name for it, "Angry Young Man Syndrome". It
>seems especially prevelant in the hacker society now, but I would guess
>that this trend is somewhat trackable. I wonder if in the 80s the AYM
>(angry young man) was the Heavy metal guy with chains and an "Im tougher
>than you" attitude, and in the 70s I was a kid, so I dont really
>remember aggression as a factor then so maybe some others can help.
>Perhaps in the 50s it was the dragster making, fight picking guy?
>
>at any rate, is the there a meme that leads to such behaviour? any
>thoughts?
>
>Sodom
>
Normally it is a feeling of helplessness. You get a lot of politicians
and your own parents making rules that you don't agree with and you want
to rebel against this.
I suffer from this sometimes. It's more a feeling that you have to do
something to change things but you feel powerless, as if everyone is
against you and not listening to the message you feel you have to get
across. The hacker society is probably the best example of this. Most
hackers are very smart, you need to be to understand the technology,
more smart even that the people who are ruling their lives. So hackers
resort to getting their message across by hacking web sites and other
things. Hackers are very smart in some ways but a because they are
normally under about 18 they don't have the experience to know the best
way of putting their message across, they get very frustrated so they
resort to this type of thing.
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Only the weak are blind when the mist descends
red_mist