>
> But this is taking me away from the main point of this discussion. I
> disagree with Ed. I still think that the rioting youngsters are just using
> Kyoto, WTO, TNCs, GM crops, etc, as pretexts. They just happen to be
useful
> alibis. Worthy though those causes may be (or may not be), it's clear that
> the youngsters have no intellectual arguments to bear. So they have a riot
> instead. Their main purpose is still that of wanting to draw attention to
> themselves, to be noticed, to be let into the adult world.
>
> Keith Hudson
Keith, the kids are searching. Some are looking to fit in, others to make
the world fit better, and still others out to have a good time while they
can. I've just spent two days at
Whistler, the huge ski resort north of Vancouver. There, I ran into all
kinds of kids, working as waiters or at whatever else was going when they
weren't snowboarding or skiing. Many had English, Australian or whatever
accents. I suspect that these kids were "timing out", neither protesting,
nor trying to fit in, nor, for the time being doing anything but having a
good time. More later.
Ed
