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- From: dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard=)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
- Subject: Re: Cyberpunk Movement
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:04:06 GMT
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- brenckle@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (BRENCKLE,NICHOLAS) writes:
-
- >Music? What does that have to do with cyberpunk? Especially the tech end?
- >(This group, no?)
-
- Considering so much bandwidth on the cp groups is dedicated to musical
- preferences...
-
-
- >As for 'buzzwords', they exist in almost every 'culture', for lack of a
- >better word. No matter what job you take, or hobby you pick up, you
- >will learn hundreds of 'buzzwords' and new jargon galore. Why? I'm not
- >really sure but this is hardly new or central to the cyberpunk movement.
-
- I agree on your point regarding jargon. However, my point was that there
- is no coherent cp "movement" except in entertainment (literature, games,
- movies, music, etc.). There is no common generalization that can be made
- about the socio-economic, political, moral, ethical or religeous aspects of
- cyberpunk, because there is none!
-
-
- >Can't really remember anything else in the argument left to refute. Basically
- >what I'm saying is that those interested in cyberpunk and the "movement"
- >are just the same as everyone else. The full spectrum of people are here.
-
- Then what makes them cyberpunks, and others not? 8^)
-
-
- >I don't listen to Ministry, don;t play RPG and don't even know anyone arrested
- >by the FBI! What kind of cyber person am I?
-
- Hmmmmmmm......a POSER?!?!?!?
-
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