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- From: rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro)
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- Subject: Re: On Drugs, Bebop and The Wire
- Date: 31 Dec 92 10:43:44
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- In-reply-to: mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:38:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.073834.11491@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo) writes:
- It's a fair (and rational) question, then, to ask why
- young musician, having a wealth of unassailable data (the testimony
- and actions or nonactions of their peers) available to them, would
- nonetheless choose narcotics.
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- Not only a fair question, but an excellent one. The implicit claim of
- the Wire articles is that we can best answer this question by avoiding
- moral judgements and looking at drug use as a cultural fact rather
- than a moral one. I agree with that assessment. There are undeniably
- strong links between the jazz subculture and the drug subculture,
- links that I'd like to see examined coolly and rationally. The less
- constrained this discussion is, the more we're likely to get out of
- it; the *last* thing we need is some kind of unstated requirement that
- all such discussion, if it's to be considered "responsible", must
- include a moral judgement of the form "drugs [or drug category X] is
- intrinsically evil".
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