Feeling grim and joyless today, are we, Woj? "Hey, you there, with the 'Pod, yeah you, don't you realize that children are being murdered in Darfur, Gaza, Iraq, that the polarization being rich and poor is incresaing logarithmically . . . how DARE you enjoy yourself instead of fighting oppression with unremitting grimness? Fun is counterrevolutionary. You listen only to recordings of political speeches with kots of facts in them, understand? By the way, I don't want to hear that you have been having sex either. No sex for you until all humanity is free."
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> > It seems that entertainment can be just as good
> opium for the
> > masses as
> > religion. Forget about the traffic, forget about
> the lack of
> > efficient
> > transportation, affordable health care or being
> one paycheck from
> > homelessness, forget about the war, corruption,
> crime or lack of
> > prospects -
> > just put your earphones on and tune in.
>
> I not only think about those things all the time, I
> spend a lot of my
> life writing, broadcasting, and agitating about
> them. And I still
> love my iPod. I just don't buy this argument at all.
>
> Doug
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