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In response to Eugene Dillenburg’s “new ideas” as reported by Michael Miner in last week’s Reader [Hot Type, March 3]: They were burying Hippie over ten years ago with a new material called Punk. It can be argued that for some listening to the Cure is true nostalgia, as in “Ah yes, I remember like yesterday po-going long into the night at O’Banion’s, way back in those crazy days of the late 70’s.” Those for whom “New Wave” long ago became old hat have moved into myriad other realms. One of these happens to be a reinvestigation and deconstruction of that media label–“THE SIXTIES.” The reason that those younger people who know “less than Eugene does” about that period are so fascinated by it is exactly that they don’t know much about the period, save the larger than life myths and blown up black and white stills that have been acid-etched into the collective consciousness by the engraving tool of a corporate memory machine (shot of screaming girl over the prone body of Kent student). Finding out the truth behind these media manipulated surface decorations should be the goal of anyone truly committed to the “future.”
W. Chicago
