only P via 1984 as 1984 becomes the Brave New World

[Ian Livingston]

>No offense, Ian, but you're using a gmail account (as am I).  How do you
think Google pays for the servers and all to offer you free email?  By
showing you ads tailored for you.

Yes, I know, Robert. And I am often delighted with how insanely far-off the
mark those targeted ads universally strike. My favorites by far are the
recipes attached to the spam folder. It's probably been 30 years since I
touched a can of that crap (sorry, any loyal limeys, just is what it is)
and another 30 will likely see me past the end of my days safe from those
recipes.

My comment was tailored to the thrill-teasing aspect especially associated
with theme parks and such. But everything from Popsicles to Previa presents
itself as the great other that will make your life juuust right until you
need some more. Addiction is like that. It's religion without explicit
prayers and mysticism: so long as you are in the temple you are at one with
all you know, as soon as you start to sober up, you start preparing to
return to the sanctity of the temple. To paraphrase the beloved Janis: It's
all the same fucking thrill, man!

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So it sounds like a doping scheme, replacing religion with thrills.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:55 AM, alice wellintown <
>> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> and in the end,
>>> the love you make & take
>>> is equal to
>>> your ride
>>> on the snake.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
>> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust
>> in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
>> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
>> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>>
>
>


-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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