General Spyware Defense

The New Activism (Fire in the Belly)Paul & Mercedes

Fire in the Belly? What is a Culture Jammer?

◦ What do we stand for? What do we want? Lasn takes a ridiculous swipe at Generation X, spouting the

decade-old media stereotypes of "slackers", "apathetic", "sardonic", "lazy", "ironic", and "the biggest waste of potential energy, passion, creativity, and intellect in our time".

The New Activism (Fire in the Belly)

What does it mean to be “cool?”◦ The quintessence of cool is being able use the

word quintessence while still being cool.

Not Cool:◦ Mullets◦ Pop-ups◦ Spelling plural nouns with a "z" on the end

We’re Not Cool

Lasn’s Not Cool List:◦ First World Opulence◦ A culture that keeps hyping people to consume

more (i.e America).◦ America™◦ And the people who fall for the hype

We’re Not Cool

Slackers◦ Underachiever◦ people who avoid work

We’re Not Slackers