At 5:05 PM -0800 3/7/00, David Honig wrote:
>At 12:51 PM 3/7/00 -0500, Michael Motyka wrote:
>>> I found curfews to be an effective technique for reminding me that I was
>>> under the supervision and control of the institution imposing the curfew.
>>> Better yet, strict and highly public punishments for even relatively minor
>>> curfew violations have the salutary effect of causing those subject to the
>>> curfew to internalize it.
>>> I can highly recommend curfew as a means of keeping kids in line.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -David
>>>
>>A free and thinking person does not accept and internalize crap imposed
>>by usurpers but rebels against it. Did you ever stop to think
>
>Michael, take a stress pill. The original author was
>being sarcastic, pointing out that infringements on
>freedom provoke reactance even before the drinking/drafting
>age. Either that or I need a stress pill for hallucinating
>sarcasm.
I saw the Molnar curfews post as obvious irony, though I can sympathize
with Motyka's having missed this...we all miss some cues or misinterpret
humor.
Anyway, William Burroughs ("Naked Lunch," former Los Alamos Boys School
graduate) had a great line about this tendency:
The policeman inside.
(One wonders if Intel would file a standard decease and cyst order if
someone were to use this.)
--Tim May
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