Surviving adoloescence

Great post by Marilyn on her blog today about how Patti Smith kept her alive long enough to see adulthood and become a writer and performer in her own right.

I was just talking about this with Cris last night, sort of. We were really talking about how people can possibly support Bush and who are these shits, and got to talking about the mentality of people who prefer not to question authority. This led to a discussion of the paradox of authoritarian alternative movements, which ostensibly are anti-Establishment but are actually as much as if not more authoritarian than the Establishment itself -- the Weather Underground, the Maoist movement and the Manson cult come to mind. Along the way we discussed how we had, as teenagers, managed to survive adolosecence by questioning authority and not falling for any one vision of how the world should be. Love to Marilyn! We made it this far.