MDMD (4) Denial of Mortality

[tommasopincio at iol.it]

> I had another thought when I read this. In Western democracies 
"Youth" is
> not "consulted" about what's "suitable" for them at all, whereas in 
other
> cultures, including Islamic culture, they are considered to be and 
treated
> as adults from age 12. Thus, effectively, in the West all individuals 
in
> that 12-18 age bracket are both voiceless and subjugated, and this, 
Pynchon
> seems to imply, is not a particularly Good Thing.

That's undoubtly right. But it's also true that MD children stays for a 
wider, eventually elder, and "voiceless" audience.
As a matter of fact someone else here noticed that "question by the 
twins, or Tenebrae's comments are not innocent at all," that means they 
are not so children.

Let me also say that a basical reason why children become adult sooner 
in other cultures is a different concept of Death, as unfortunately 
some Islamic showed us just one month ago.