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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?
> > Your definition of cpunk sounds a lot like just being young.
> Omar, lemme explain something to you. Okay, there's thisnthing called
> the nervous system, right? I'm sure you've heard of it. Now, thins
> thingee has more storage than the Library of Congress, and more
> processing power than the international telephone network. Now, this is
> some pretty spiffy wetware. It's sorta complex, though. It's kinda not
> possible to characterize it with a few words.
> Look at it this way: If I read your little treatse on utopia and said,
> "uh, you sound like a person," would you be satisfied?
"Living on the edge", the whole lifestyle you describe, existed before the
first person who coined the term "cyberpunk" was an itty bitty sperm.
> Jer
> https://omega.mac.cc.cmu.edu/
> "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
> why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole
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