[lbo-talk] crises kill

[Dennis Perrin]

> Yeah. It'd be interesting to do an analysis of the political economy
> of depression. Why are so many people depressed? It seems endemic
> among young people now - but I don't remember anything like it when I
> was young. Is it the alienation of capitalist work and the emptiness
> of affluence, or is that just banal and obvious?
>
> Doug

My 17-year-old is mopey a lot of the time. I asked her why, and she replied, 
"Everything's dead!"

"What do you mean?"

"Everything's been done! Music, art, film. Politics sucks. It's all dead."

She said she didn't envy my age (who would?), but that I was around when 
punk first hit, and was old enough to remember the hippies, etc. Today, it's 
all rehash. I can see her point, kinda.

Dennis