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| A smart article that ties OWS to new genres.
It's fitting that the Occupy movement should have drawn inspiration from dystopian fiction, an increasingly popular genre for teens and young adults in particular. If, as Time magazine suggests, the person of the year was the Protester, the publishing phenomenon was the Dystopia -- the story of the dissenter in a repressive society who becomes a revolutionary.
All of these books feature adolescent protagonists who, at a crucial point in their lives (usually an adult-initiation process of some kind), reject the limited choices they're offered and learn self-sufficiency instead. They pull together support from other outsider teens and some adults and make difficult decisions that open the door to a new and better way of life. Thus, they avert catastrophe and avoidthe trap of the minimum-wage, dead-end job -- or its near-future equivalent. |
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
