Absences in VL
Peter Petto
ppetto at apk.net
Sat Dec 5 10:15:03 CST 1998
On 12/4/98, Sebastian Dangerfield wrote a lot of good stuff about Vietnam,
including:
>"Brock Vond's genius was to have seen in the activities of the sixties
>left not threats to order but unacknowledged desires for it. While
>the Tube was proclaiming youth revolution against parents of all
>kinds and most viewers were accepting this story, Brock saw the
>deep . . . need only to stay children forever, safe inside some
>extended national Family."
>
>I dunno . . . whadd'yall think. Food for thought, or just indigestion?
Nutritious food for thought!
I think the question is: how do we grow up?
(Is this question answered in VL? in M&D?)
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