Writing for an ‘Alternative’ audience.

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Writing for an ‘Alternative’ audience.

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I’m not a Hippie or even a Beat. You cannot go through life with labels stuck on you. But I am alternative.

I was part of the Sixties Underground and took on a lot of the idealism and optimism of those times. I was seeped in Kerouac and Ginsberg and took that all into my spirit.

I wanted a new way of living that did not fit with this greedy capitalist dream. I did not see wealth, power and fame as sensible goals that lead to happiness and fulfilment. I wanted something more personal and internal. Excitement, love, creativity, music, adventure, experience, friendship, travel, wisdom and beauty seemed much more fulfilling to me.

I took from those times and experiences and then grew and adapted. I am the product of my times, experiences and personality.

So what do I mean by alternative?

I am a creative person, a free thinker, who imagines a different way of living. I seek fulfilment in different ways. I am an idealist and optimist who looks at the mess people are making of the planet and, rather than pretending that it has nothing to do with me, is looking for a better way of living.

There has to be more to life than consuming drivel.

I do it my way.

11 thoughts on “Writing for an ‘Alternative’ audience.”

  1. Hey Opher – an alternative perspective such as this that foregrounds the creative, free-thinking, independent view-point brought to mind a book once suggested to me by a friend called The Outsider by Colin Wilson (1956). I think you’d appreciate it as much as I did as it.

    Wiki leads with the following:

    ‘Through the works and lives of various artists – including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of Its Tether), Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Harley Granville-Barker (The Secret Life), Hermann Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and George Gurdjieff – Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society’s effect on him.’

    No doubt it’s available on Amazon.

    DN

      1. Yes indeed Opher, an excellent read, well written, insightful, inspiring and wholly digestible. A book upon which to muse, pause and ponder. So pleased to know you’ve a copy to hand.

        Cheers,

        DN

      3. I haven’t read it, but having had a quick look, I may well invest in a copy. It looks fascinating, and yes, right up my street 😀

        Thank you for mentioning it here.

        DN

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