The Slacker Movement: What is it all about?

Recently, Roman Shusterman, an activist, began holding out a sign in Union Square Park. It said in bold letters, "Slackers of the World Unite!" The sign generated a response of several threads on Sean Hannity's website, where they went into further detail of how he was calling for the Million Slackers March. Although being that Sean Hannity's bigoted eccentricities do not mesh well with the message Roman was trying to promote, I will add that any response is favorable, contrary to what I've been experiencing with my own personal blog (ho de hoho hum!!!) I am rather astonished since card-carrying members of the Fashion Industrial Complex would generally ignore and give two-word responses, if anything. I would like to thank the person who put us on the website, political differences aside, for helping me and Roman introduce people to the idea of the Slacker Movement. However, I would like to take the time to clarify exactly what it entails.

I was the brains behind this idea. A slacker, by definition, is generally somebody that does not want to work. 'Nuff said, right? Wrong. A slacker can be many things. In the 90's, the Alternative generation glamorized the slacker lifestyle as rebelling against what society told them they should be doing for a living. Now as much as I loved the Grunge era, the negative portrayal of slackerdom--as capitalized by Kurt Cobain--did little but feed into the Fashion Industrial Complex's degradation of my generation through stereotyping their likes and distastes. Think of Beavis and Butthead being redirected through MTV to metamorphose an entire generation through subtle mechanics. This phenomenon killed the entirety of the Alternative/Punk movement and prevented it from making any waves as far as social reconstruction. As the FIC tends to do, it nullified any component of true socialism and decadently rendered it passe as it was swallowed alive by the "bohemoth" media and became nothing more than a trend to follow.

In mainstream culture, the term slacker is thrown around to include people that are generally frowned upon by corporate 9-to-5 society. These include artists, performers, activists, and journalists that don't want to earn a salary that pays their bills but kills them inside. I fall into that category. I myself am employed, but I do not consider my job conducive to a career that fulfills the mind, body and spirit. Therefore by virtue I fall into the slacker category because I have an occupation where the work I do is despised by the corporations even though it keeps things running. I am a messenger, otherwise known as the literal corporate carrier pigeon. Most of the work I do as a messenger is for the Fashion Industrial Complex, ie. designers, boutiques and retailers. I am directed every day by security guards in large office buildings to use the service entrance because the beautiful people in the lobbies and normal elevators do not want to know that messengers exist. This is not the kind of work I want to do for the rest of my natural life. Therefore I am calling on people who feel the same way, in order to create a better workforce for creative types to thrive, for all who at one point in their lives have been given the slacker label to form a MILLION SLACKER MARCH!!

The purpose of this march is not satire or sarcasm, in fact my republican friends on the Sean Hannity website were busy debating whether or not myself and Roman were serious about the march idea or if it was just a joke. But regardless if the title "MILLION SLACKER MARCH" is catchy and could come across as a joke, millions of lives are wasted because they have fallen into the slacker category and accrued the punishment of living up to the shameful stereotypes that plague us as a whole. These include laziness, drug addiction, and even homelessness. So it is a serious issue. We therefore need a forum where the slackers of the world can reclaim our identity as people that want to be given a chance under a progressive government that can adequately respond to the demands and work requirements of all people, not just FIC/corporate types.