Fight Fire with Fire Wire

Hey, GenXer’s - I figured out what our thing should be to take back the country from the Squatters in the Whitehouse. You know how in the early part of the 20th century they went out on strike to bring about change? The fifties had boycotts. In the 60’s, they marched. In the 70’s, they had sit-ins. Then came heroine and cocaine and ecstasy…we forgot to protest and stumbled through Reagan & Bush. Then, on through the Clinton years, where we were at least happier while we got screwed. Now, we’ve got a veritable coup on our hands and the best we’ve got is picketing miles away from the event and DVD parties?!! We’ve got to do something, because shit’s gotten out of hand. But strikes are not our thing. We actually don’t want to ‘not work’. How else would we blog? It’s the new smoke break. And, work is air conditioned. Boycotts are an inconvenience, yes, I’ll say it for all of us. Same goes for marches and sit-ins…people get ‘ripe’ well before social change comes about, okay? We’ve become accustomed to not smelling like ourselves…don’t judge us, World.

So what does that leave? How are we going to bring about change without really exerting any effort? What shall be the GenX Sermon on the Mount? Consider this…just as every seminar at the end of college advised us to do, let’s go with our strengths. We have morphed into a society of well connected hermits. Through the magic of cellphones, PDA’s, Xboxes, PodCasts, email, blogging, finally finding our personal space out in the open at My Space, we stay in touch without touching. Like it or delete it, these are our so-called Strengths.

So how do we take back our country? Well, there’re going to be electronic voting shenanigans come the 2006 elections. It’s a given. Therefore, let Nov. 7 be our Norma Rae Moment and back up our data, synchronize our respective devises and uber-crash the bitches! Ready, Aim, WiFi! We don’t even have to be secret about it. Because once it’s known that that’s what type of party it’s gonna be like, Hackers from both sides will flip the votes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth– a cyber battle of attrition - until the hacking cancels itself out with the Blue Screen O’ Death.

Then we’ll use the machines that have worked just fine since the 60’s, when the last of us were born.