drugs in Vineland---and drug laws
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Mar 31 13:40:35 CDT 2009
>> Mark Kohut:
>>
>> Contentious perspective for discussion: drug use, despite our
>> freedom to, is "part of the problem" in Vineland????
> Laura:
> Drug use is a form of social protest in a society where it's
> outlawed. But it's an easy, ineffectual, and basically self-serving
> substitute for real protest (strikes, demonstrations, civil
> disobedience, riots, organizing, alternative media, education
> campaigns, etc).
And it turns a sandwich into a banquet.
Far as I can tell, TRP is one of the all-time-greats of stoner humor.
Far as I can tell, he quacks, walks and talks like a duck. There's an
elephant in the room and he just took a toke off the bong.
There's no red-blooded, all-American evil fascist stoner in OBA's
stuff. In fact, going from front to back of the dude's oeuvre you find
some good stoners, some value-neutral stoners but no bad-guy stoners.
And while Pynchon has said a lot of favorable things about weed in his
work, I don't recall him saying anything negative about weed.
If you are looking for a post-modern writer that delves into negative
aspects of marijuana allow me to recommend the late, lamented David
Foster Wallace. "Infinite Jest" goes there.
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