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Welcome to Filibusted - a place to pause. We here at this fledgling think tank of culture vultures are seeking to give voice to a generation that learned to read under Reagan and Bush 1. The children of the Boomers who never had a Facebook page in high school, who don't feel entirely fluent in the Internet world of late capital in which friendship, political identity, and cultural community find themselves on a page with a custom engined selection of advertisements. We are still pursued by the specter of "authenticity" - the ideal that drove our parents first toward the marches for social justice that have become classics on YouTube and PBS alike, and then some fifteen years later to purchasing a host of Sony products. We need to both remember and forget. We stand at a precipice in consciousness and choose, for a time, to pause here and call out, on the Internet, no less.