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Subject: Re: A show of hands (ME!!, FUCKING ME!!)
Date: 14 Jul 1995 16:10:08 -0400
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Omar Haneef '96 ([email protected]) wrote:
> .mpa ([email protected]) wrote:

> > > 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.

I don't condone driving under the influence of anything: Cigarettes, cel
phones, alcohol, drugs, Lysergic Acid, whatever. I don't even condone
driving for that matter. Its not my business. But the thing is that there
are going to be people who are going to do these things. I've done them,
all of them (except the cel phone) and I'm not necessarily proud of it
but it was the right thing to do at the time, or do I thought.

Since people are going to do these things the only solution for me is to
make sure I'm out of their way if our paths meet. If I've behaved
impeccably and my karma works out I'll live another day. If I haven't
then I could be dead. The key to any "bad" situation is to Not Be
There(tm) when the shit hits the fan and to have an umbrella for when it
does.

> > Let your lovelight shine on you crazy diamond.

> The light went out, and MPA started to grind...

Gawd, Is that a quote from the artist formerly known as Prince?

In any event you need a metaphorical upgrade. Right now I think your
processor's working at the level of an IBM3278 markII (dumb) terminal.

Or are you just a WANG?


.mpa
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