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Omar Haneef '96 ([email protected]) wrote:
> Jeremiah A Blatz ([email protected]) wrote:
> > Excerpts from netnews.alt.cyberpunk: 13-Jul-95 Re: A show of hands
> > (ME!!, .. by Omar Haneef '[email protected]
> > > > Just an average weekend. Intense? Nah, mildly stimulating, you stop
> > > > shaking after about 2 days, and say too yourself "never again", but
> > > > you know its shit because you will, because YOU LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF
> > > > IT. YEAH!
> > >
> > > No!!! Cyberpunk by CHOICE? What happens when someone DOES die on their
> > > first
> > > night as a cyberpunk? I mean there is this 14 year old who says
> > > "fuck yeah,
> > > I'm one" and then wrecks his car on acid and then ends up a
> > > quadrapelegic?
> > Sorry, chummer. Evolution in action.
> You can't mean this. The poor kid might have done a million good - even
> great - things. The kid might have become William Gibson or something. And
> you think because he wasn't lucky enough to swerve or smart enough not to
> become a "cyberpunk" s/he deserves a life in bed?
He chose, or his path was chosen for him. You wanna live forever or
something? There is no right or wrong outcome just the one that happens.
Noone said that doing any of these marginally sane things *makes*
someone a cyberpunk.
Noone deserves anything other than what they've got. They can want more
and work or steal to get more but, as with anything in this life, there
are no guarantees.
> "Living on the edge", the whole lifestyle you describe, existed before the
> first person who coined the term "cyberpunk" was an itty bitty sperm.
Let your lovelight shine on you crazy diamond.
.mpa
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