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prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Wed Feb 19 10:34:56 CST 2003


> Sasha's daughter, Frenesi, finds herself unable to continue either
> tradition because of her fatal attraction fro Brock Vond, but Zoyd
> proves himself to be an admirable replacement. What is ultimately at
> stake in the rivalry between Brock Vond and Zoyd Wheeler is a battle
> between to forms of communitarianism: one coercive, majoritarian, and
> bad; the other voluntary, pluralistic, and good. 

Literature will get interesting again when this childish & simplistic 
worldview is dropped.

I think the main reason people trumpet "But Bush stole the election!" 
is to convince themselves that simple, absolutist answers work. (The 
war-crazy mass-killer may have technically stolen the election or 
not, but anything that comes down to a contest closer than its margin 
of error is not an effective decisional system.)



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