Building Anger...

I entered the world of fantasy, of imagery, of personalities and conflict willingly.  I was taught in an orderly fashion by people many consider "legends" today, quiet moments chatting in a locker room, on a car trip or even in passing in a restaurant.  I still learn from contemporaries and correspondence about the main point of what we are involved in today.  Everyone taught the one aspect that appears to be suffering the most these days, respect.

There is a widening generation gap between those I learned from and today's fans (who I've been told to no longer refer to as "marks" because it is "name-calling").  I've heard for years the grumbling from the old school guys about "kids" ruining the business, "kids" exposing the business, or "kids" messing up things for everybody else in the business.  These same men and women would most likely tell you today the the problem is the "kids" running the business, rather than the tell-all world of the internet choking the life out of the mystique that used to surround us all...