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Besides people managed to have a good time even before
Copernicus and Galileo broke the paradigms apart. What
about melody and harmony?
Teen #1
We can make our fuzz circuits do everything for us. Sub-
urbia is just sleepwalking through life. Only our harsh
notes can wake them to the discord that lies beneath the
greenswept swards of our existence. That's what Mrs.
Fishback says.
Teen #2
Cut it out. You like your dad's car as much as I do. How
would you like your father to awaken you fromyour sleep-
walking and force you to do some actual walking to the
mall? I don't want to make Mrs. Fishback's music.
Teen #1
Why not? She obviously understands the evil hegemony
proffered by a corporate culture intent on creating a som-
nolent adolescence. We are not peoplemerely because we
consume.
Teen #2
Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the rest live on major labels sold
at full list price at our mall.
Teen #1
Whoa! Perhaps we're being led to rebel in the hopes that
anticulturewillsellevenmorethantraditionalculture?
Teen #2
Yes. You got i t .
Teen #1
It's true. Mrs. Fishback just wants us to create a youth
she never had when she was running between classes and
earning good grades. The revolution always ended in the
1960s when the exams came around. They smoked a lit-
tlepot,wenttoaprotest,butmostofitwasjustgrooving
to the music and searching for someone to do some lov-
ing. Then they got married and got jobs. We're just do-
ing what her generation wants. They're marketing to us
through their dreams of what they wished their childhood
had been.
Teen #2
You're getting the hang of it.
Teen #1
The pervasive drive to explode the previous is just another
marketing move. Unknowingly, we're channeling our re-
bellious energy through a marketing path created by a
cynical corporate structure intent on destroying the po-
tential for upheaval in every youth. Instead of remaking
the world with our passion, we're simply consuming anti-
cultural icons constructed as pseudo-rebellious pabulum.
Teen #2
Bonzai!
Teen #1
So what do we do?
Teen #2
I have this Beethovenmusic here. It has no copyright.
Teen #1
Excellent. By reinvigorating the classic music, we'll be
