> Ditto for books. You could get any publication (book or record) through
> informal networks.
>
> I dare to say that an average Pole under state socialism had a far
> greater exposure to foreign ideas and publications than an average US-er
> in this self-styled bastion of freedom.
How about informal networks PLUS out-in-the-open knowledge/goods sharing?
Maybe the average Pole was/is more exposed to foreign ideas than the average American. An informal network sounds like a pain in the ass, however. How could one be anti-social and get anything that way?
Brian
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Il etait enfin venu, le jour ou je fus un pourceau!" - Comte de Lautreamont, Les Chants de Maldoror, 4th Hymn, Strophe 6