addiction

[digloria at mindspring.com]

ok, fess up some-a you'se guys.  how many hours do you sit in front of those
evil 'fusers surfing the net, reading listservs, and newsgroups.  why is
this time spent in front of a fuser less damaging than a tv?  what kind of
pablum do you learn reading lbo?   i'd hazard a guess and say that most of
what we learn here--value wise--is not a lot different than what we'd learn
in front of the teevee.

i don't think that anyone's saying that you can learn *what* US society is
like by watching the teevee.  that would be using some sort of realist grid,
asking how teevee represents US society.  Now, this is certainly not the
point.  Would you use the same sort of realist frame for looking at updike?
pope?  harriet tubman?  the letters between debeauvoir and sartre?
rigoberto menchu?  the letters between jefferson and adams?  the journals
kept by  women traveling westward to stake out a plot of land during the
second half of the 1800s? ken keasey?

no

gloriA

anyhoo,
gloriA