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sorry… a thousand apologies
Just taking LeeV and Drew’s lead here
sometimes it best to discover these things on your own…
Too many arguments lately…
I don’t want to fuel anymore fires here…
Time to go back to figuring out how to make more money off you guys…
Damn interest rates and oil prices are screwing everthing up in our smoke filled room.
Gotta get creative agian…
Cort Gion’s timely reminder …
"When you live in harmony with other people and you try and help and flow with the style and not try and push a bunch of stuff on everyone and push a bunch of change on everyone dramatically and just try your best, people are going to respect you for it. "
Profs to Cort Gion. I met him when he lived in front of my favorite surf spot and he was gracious enough to let me watch him shape a few boards. A totally cool surfer/shaper. Too bad he moved. Hope you’re doing alright Cort.
A lot of people are afraid of the evolution. They want to stick in the nostalgia and everything. But everyone has to grow. This is 1984, last year was 1983, and next year is '85. We all get older every year and everything changes, our music changes. . .you have got to be able to not just stop. You have to be able to just keep evolving, and that is where the sport has to go, and in a positive way.
couldnt agree more …
nice find bernie …
regards
BERT
Well, that was a long read for me, what with that g.d. phone ringing all the time, but well worth it. The two articles, one looking forward and really one looking back…very interesting and a lot to digest. For those who haven’t poked around the periphery of this site it might be pertinent to point out that Cort Gion left Hawaii and went to…well…it’s in there if you want to find it. He didn’t go back to California…
As to the Futurist and his take on things…
Well, be of good cheer, because immediately behind them, about to emerge from the high schools, are the first of the generation, born in the 1980s and 90s. which will rival the Boomers for dominance over the first half of the 21st Century. These are often called the “Millennials”, and they are super educated, super obedient, super hardworking superkids. And they are “only” children. The single, pampered off-spring of two hardworking parents. Each child goes to Punahou, has her own nanny, her own violin teacher, her own soccer coach, her own Mandarian Chinese instructor. The Millennials have always been under adult supervision. They have always played by the rules–and they believe there are, and always will be, rules to play by, coaches to teach them, and referees to enforce them. So don’t fret about the GenXers. Hang in there for the Millenials, soon to come.
This statement is a bit parochial, and I think his take that they are all “only” children is flat wrong, but his take on them on the whole is horrifyingly right. No they don’t all go to private schools, and there are usually 2-3 kids in the families. Their Boomer and end-of-boom parents usually want the whole package: 2 kids and a dog. There is a revolting fad at least in California right now of putting stickers on the back of the SUV denoting the family demographics: A Daddy sticker, a Mommy sticker, a properly sized sticker for each spawn, and stickers for the dogs too. They are folk arty stick figures. The one for little Bobby even shows him in his soccer uniform.
What’s next? Dollar signs, I guess.
The self-centeredness and…what would you call it? Smugness is the word that comes to mind, but that implies some sense of awareness, which is sadly absent in this whole scenario. It’s like the under-18 surf kid who is a complete agressive asshole in the water and junior ripoff artist on the beach, all because he knows he has extra protection under the law while he is a minor. This never ceases to make me laugh. If an adult hits someone under 18 he will get more serious consequences, but that’s after the fact…the kid will already have his well deserved broken nose.
So this well-trained consumer gets out into the marketplace (I guess I should face it - this already is the surf industry marketplace) and wants what it wants right freaking now and cares only about itself…gets into the workplace and does it the way it wants to reagardless of anything up to and including reality…saying the surfie versions of “We’re here and we’re queer”…and one day you notice most vehicles have surfboards on the roof racks nose forward, and the boards are Surftechs, and a wetsuit that lasts only one year for $215 is seen as the price you pay for progress…
It’s going to be their world much sooner rather than later because they have insane consumption “habits”, and money talks…good for business…buy a cheap Chinese import board and you want another one 3 months later…magazines say “must build a quiver to be core”…good for business good for business good for business…
Screw it…maybe global warming will be a good thing…
The spookier part I think will be the skin cancer issue…
One of the monsters that will cobble things up down the road
It’s in Dator’s warning message as well.
Yeah, the guy made a virtual Rosetta Stone speech there.
The skin cancer issue is an interesting one in relation to travel and tourism as it really only applies to those who have awareness of it, which is “older” people. When it comes to younger people his accurate (in a general sense) take on what he calls the Millennials and an also general take on Gen-X and Millennial generations on the whole, I suspect it won’t hit until they mature in years. They are so marketed to, caterd to, and generally so willingly brainwashed that skin cancer will remain seen as some sort of personal failure of old and clueless people.
???Wha wha what???
I ran a website for 4.5 years, and the one essay I put up that got the most hostile reaction from readers (based on email received with comments) had to do with skin cancer, and basically was a simple reminder that it exists and to wear a hat…basic precautions. I put in photos of a dark blue canvas surfer boonie hat showing the sun faded top and the dark inside and pointed out the obvious - if I wasn’t wearing that hat all that damage would have been done to me. I was appalled by the response, most of which was along the lines of “stop preaching”. I only got one positive email, from a health care professional, who eventually grew up to be a Swaylock’s Moderator…
Price of oil will probably cripple or change tourism indistry before health issues,along with the world economy and environment…
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”
It seems Oneula and Nels have some time on their hands…
http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm
(My favorite Science Fiction writer! - Harlan Ellison)
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
1967
Ellison’s experimental/psychedelic/impressionistic book. The stories cover a substantial slice of the author’s writing career – the earliest selection was first published in 1958, the latest in 1967 – and an equally broad range of themes. What ties them together is a stylistic boldness that both challenges readers and welcomes them as fuller participants in the storytelling process.
The standouts here are “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes,” an exploration of Las Vegas as the purest embodiment of human evil; “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (not quite the title story, as attentive readers have noted); “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer,” in which Ellison began to explore the extraordinary implications of ordinary events, an eventual trademark of his work; and “Lonelyache,” his first real venture into the realm of psychological confession as a foundation for fiction. Seven stories in the collection, and at least four of them classics – not a bad average.
We are all futurists in a sense. The only way not to be, is to never think about tomorrow. We can’t help but evolve to some degree. It’s what we evolve into that is always so astonishing. Evolving with awareness is the hard part.
Some of my favorite stories there, daddio. Deathbird Stories…beware what we revere, because it can take on a life of its own, and then own us.
Peace is a good future.