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.mpa ([email protected]) wrote:
> 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.
You will grant that driving under the influence - something that seems to be
paraded as some sort of cyberpunk virtue - will increase one's chances of
hurting themselves and other people. The risk, I am suggesting, is not worth
the thrill and any mood/stance that asserts the worthiness of such acts of
recklesness is not something I wish to encourage.
> > "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.
The light went out, and MPA started to grind...
> .mpa
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