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- From: kassover@rumsey.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
- Subject: Re: Potheads of the 70's Raising Kids
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.022041.7450@crd.ge.com>
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- References: <day_kevran-190193144434@130.252.108.182> <1993Jan22.020602.531435@locus.com> <1993Jan22.222144.14377@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:20:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.222144.14377@umiami.ir.miami.edu> ahelmers@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.020602.531435@locus.com>, judy@locus.com (Judy Tryer) writes:
- ...
- >> People have different body chemistries and what is enjoyable to one person
- >> may be completely unpleasant to another. However, I believe that there is
- >> some drug that will be pleasant to each person, so pleasant that having once
- >> experienced the drug, that person will have a problem with craving that
- >> drug for the rest of his or her life.
- ...
-
- >I know you mean well, but this is so stupid! Are you saying that for each and
- >every one of us there is some chemical substance somewhere--could be pot, could
- >be a camel dung/qat mixture from Saudi Arabia--that will turn each and every
- >one of us into something out of a Hogarth lithograph??? (As in lying in the
- >middle of the street drooling) Or that if we cannot get this substance we will
- >spend the rest of our lives twitching at our desks, snapping pencils and
- >sweating???
- >
- >Sorry, but I'd have to give this JLT-theory the big *BRRZZZ* [WRONG!]
-
- Don't think so. Orwell (_1984_) and Burgess (_A Clockwork
- Orange_) believed so, to the extent of writing about the dangers
- of allowing a government to come to this realization and
- acheiving the means to put it into practice. I seem to recall
- that a large part of their writing was based on sound
- psychological research.
-
- The stimulus need not be strictly external chemical; If I recall
- properly, Winston Smith was controlled because of a deepseated
- irrational fear of rats. Burgess's hero, who's name I cannot
- recall was conditioned into "acceptable" behavior by playing on
- his love of classical music.
-
- Pick any random 5 people reading this newsgroup, and
- disconnect them from netnews; see what kind of behavior changes
- you get...
-
-
-
- --
- David Kassover "Proper technique helps protect you against
- uupsi!khazad!kassover sharp weapons and dull judges."
- kassover@aule-tek.com F. Collins
- kassover@ra.crd.ge.com
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