The leadership of zines?
Anyone think that zines have much effect on pop culture? On kids?
GenX? Start trends, attitudes, reinforce them, etc.?
Did zines have anything to do with the liftoff of Jackie Chan’s career?
(The recent boost of HK film…did it start in the US with zines?)
Did zines boost *detail affect*? —Interest in minutia, trivia, of
the 70’s…of murderers…. Archness on the upswing?
Is zining really ‘no holds barred’?
It seems that one’s conscience would have
to limit behavior even when there’s no ‘boss’, when you own the rag.
Obviously, conscience would then finally be allowed its STRONGEST
role. No one around to make you weak.
Is the biggeset crime in zining self-indulgence? Is there a bigger
crime in society in general? What is the root of evil?
Or is zining often *REACTIVE*—the work of kids (or permakids)
who are reacting against parents and other factors which they
(indulgently?) determine give them victim status of one kind or another,
and thus permission to react rather than act. —I will publish defaced kiddy
cartoons *because they won’t let me otherwise*, *because they’ve been
pushing cuteness down my throat*. —I will lament my family/peers
*because they’ve been bothering me so long*, I’m *irritated* and pent up,
so I just let it all out as a zine.
It seems like maybe reaction and irritation can be motivation to
create, a spur to upward development. Or it can go downward into
cynicism and reflex.
