PLAY AWAY
The Play Ethic – what a crock. Pat Kane, yes Pat Kane of Hue & Cry is leading the revolution. “This we know: we're stressed-out, debt-ridden, exhausted. We have less time for our families than we feel we should have. We take fewer pleasures from our entertainments and consumptions than we expected to take. We feel less connected to our communities than we ever did.” No shit Pat. "Play will be to the 21st century what work was to the last 300 years of industrial society - our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value. At the beginning of this new century, the social group that seems to be playing for keeps is the digital generation.” This drivel continues with the exciting promise/threat: "You'll have to wait for the publication of The Play Ethic: Living Creatively In The New Century by Pat Kane, for a full explication of the ideas hinted a Oh purlease. Away and play with yourself. Meanwhile while we're covering what Carmelo Ruiz calls "Future Schlock, or Techno-crap" Read this excellent piece by Bob Ostertag, in which he deals a knockout punch to all the mindless techno-twits and the techno-utopian idiocy of our age.
