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- From: rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro)
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- Subject: Re: On Drugs, Bebop and The Wire
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:43:28
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- In-reply-to: mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com's message of Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:48:42 GMT
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- Lewis was attempting to write *rationally* about drug use and abuse
- and its relationship to so-called deviant culture (of which jazz
- certainly used to be, and maybe still is, an example). I don't know
- what discursive life is like in the UK, where The Wire is published;
- but I know that it's become essentially impossible to mention drug use
- publicly in the US without taking the hellfire and brimstone approach
- - rationality has long since gone out the door. No doubt this article
- is flawed in some of the ways Marcel mentions. But I still regard it
- as a healthier and more useful way to deal with this subject than the
- usual claptrap we get in the mainstream press. Lewis is at least
- trying to think through fairly complex issues with something other
- than the familiar drugs-are-evil cliches. I applaud the effort.
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