North American Slacker

The Philosophy of the North American Slacker has it’s roots back in the mid 1990’s as a group of rants I wrote on yellow legal pads while attending college.  I was attending various community colleges and was taking the first philosophy classes which would end up being the major I chose and graduated with.  The idea started out as a youth rebellion book with the hope that it would change the way those of us caught at the tail end of Gen X and the beginnings of Gen Y think.

I recently found a file from 1999 in which I typed up all of those original rants.  The writing is a tad choppy, a few ideas and pop culture references are clearly dated, and although I would like to think that I have matured slightly since those early days, chances are I haven’t.  The idea for the book has never left me.  But procrastination and real life has gotten in the way of actually working on it. 

Now though is time to start working on the project once again.  Originally titled as “I Had a Point Somewhere But I Seem to Have Forgotten It — The Philosophy of the North American Smart-Ass”, somewhere I shortened the idea in my mind to simply “The Philosophy of the North American Slacker”.

I will present some of those early posts in their nearly raw, and barely edited format.  Although these writings are nearly ten years old I can see the same style and person I am today in them.

Enjoy.