> Leigh Meyers wrote:
>
>> OK, so what about the thousands of other people
>> that are being "screwed"(sic) by the sex industry?
>
> Do you feel the same way about the purveyors of 420? Some really
> nasty folks in that biz.
>
Yes... Absolutely, the marketing distorts the intent(?), and in the case of weed, and other natural tonics,(like sex) taints them in some spiritual way. Andy N. just commented on that while I was typing, so I'll move on.
The rastafarians have a derogatory term for money involved in it... dunza(not sure of the origin), and the system that promotes it is the shitstem, but if your understanding of what a rastafarian is only means you've heard of Bob Marley, and his music is cool, then you don't get it. U ain't rasta, mon.
Similarly, I believe the sex trade does that with eros, and the sex workers that Doug may have interviewed only represent a group of sex worker that are literate, can keep from nodding out and talk in an intelligible manner, are clean enough to walk into a studio, or have a public conversation without geting pick up by the police as a known "prostie"...
You couldn't get a representative cross section on your show Doug, because for some, their time is too valuable($$$) and they need that fix NOW, so... out on the street.
It all becomes an "image" that get bought and sold like a 420 ballcap, or a rasta tam with the dreads sewn into it, or silicone boobs... whatever. Theodore Rosak addressed this in Making of a Counterculture, something about the hippie image getting reflected back by the "funhouse mirror" of the media, and how the reaction from the reflectee(?) distorted everything even more, until the, in this case, hippie phenomenon was unrecognizable, less viable, and eventually was "overrun" by people who thought they knew what it was because they read an article about it in Time or Life.
It doesn't just happen to people that "look funny", it happens to concepts, like eros, as well...
One of the reggae bands did a song called "Chris Blackwell is a Vampire" years ago, about the fouder of Island Records... I propose that the producers of porn are exactly the same kind of vampire that Chris Blackwell was purported to be.
Absolutely.
Leigh