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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