tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13638234.post824585146406356507..comments2023-10-31T08:05:38.800-04:00Comments on Sterling on Justice & Drugs: Look, up in the sky! It's a drug, it's a high. No, it's website!Eric E. Sterlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061193531254728800noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13638234.post-83759107283018798312010-07-15T16:07:59.400-04:002010-07-15T16:07:59.400-04:00This story brings a few thoughts to mind.
1) This...This story brings a few thoughts to mind.<br /><br />1) This is Spinal Tap - in the scene where the guitar player explains to the documentarian how his amp "goes to 11," there is also an exchange where the guitarist suddenly thinks that a guitar which has never been played will loose value even if it's looked at, so he chastises the documentarian to not even look at the guitar.<br /><br />2) I keep on thinking about a creative writing piece which I've not yet typed up. Here's the gist for someone else to run with if they want. Basically it's set in the not too distant future, or perhaps taking place today. It plays off the irony that "Conservative Christians" who have a strong distaste for other religions (and one in particular) are very much like an oppressive religion that engages in FGM, and how those two "religions" which are at each other's throats are, in fact, quite similar.<br /><br />It explains how the prohibitionists finally get fed up with all the different ways, and new ways, people are thinking of to feel good, or get high. So they just decide to get at "the root of the problem" and mandate a surgical procedure for every baby such that its "pleasure center" in the brain is snuffed out, thus preventing anyone from being able to engage it when they get older. Kind of like how "fixing" a pet at an early age "relieves" it of those pesky and embarrassing humping episodes.ChristMotForbudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17470401758267964354noreply@blogger.com