IVIV family

[Joseph Tracy]

This is one of those deals where I was outside working and had the  
same thoughts exactly, partly in connection to the Copenhagen  
dealings. And it is in some ways worse than an addiction to  
capitalism or things or the fake over the real but an addiction to  
the criminality we despise or tell ourselves we despise. People  hate  
Manson/OJ/Bin Laden/the Mafia but  obsess over every detail of their  
doings , fantasize about having similar powers, enact bloody revenge  
on surrogates.


On Dec 11, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Doug Millison wrote:


> Maybe it's "addiction" itself that's the problem? Instead of  
> normal, healthy relationships with other people and things, we  
> sometimes develop addictions instead.  Recall how Pynchon's work  
> goes after "pornography", described as the phony and inauthentic  
> representations of life that we humans sometimes prefer over the  
> real thing. The perfect sunset on the postcard instead of life on  
> the real Gordita Beach, for example.
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>> Mark the K;
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>> …without further thought I guess I see the GF as our addiction to  
>> THINGS that destroy us, whatever that means......