Re: Fwd: Lanier essay of 2001.12.04

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Dec 08 2001 - 19:05:54 MST


At 07:51 PM 12/8/01 -0500, Dossy wrote:

>>So we
>> would be imagining a world that is driven by sex.

>Well, the hippies also solved this problem by introducing
>the concept of "free love" ...

Well, the hippies actually failed to solve this problem by airily defining
out of existence (by fiat--yeah, right) the concept of "jealousy" ... and
when that finally kicked in (as it almost always did), boy, did it ever suck.

Damien Broderick
[reporting from the trenches of the 1970s and 1980s]



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