Re: not butter, guns
John Smith (johnsmiii@yahoo.com)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
The status symbol here is the Mini-van. If you have
one, it indicates that you own 2.3 children and earn
between 40-70,000$ combined income. I've seen
commercials for the Subaru Outback, which are nothing
short of annoying. That Paul Hogan character is
tiresome. How do you feel about having an actor as
Australia's international icon? I remember thinking
Paul was cool by his infamous rubric: 'That's not a
knife. That's a knife.'
About the turrets and automobilies, I was just
expanding on Scottie's hyperbole, meany. In Los
Angeles, California, there are 0.6 freeway shootings
per day due to road rage or random acts of madness.
The fact that we carry guns makes everything worse,
because one of the driver's hands is on the coffee cup
and the other, a gun. It's difficult to command the
steering wheel between your thighs, so the driving
follows the paranoia curve. But that's not my point,
I don't see how stricter gun laws could hurt the
public, except for the hunters and madmen, of course.
I just rejoined the mailing list yesterday, so I feel
like I'm barging in on a conversation. Is there a
skirmish in our midst or am I just paranoid?
--- Camille Scaysbrook <c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John Smith (who is ... who? in cybernetic
> disguise???) wrote:
>
> > Forget Spandaus and Ouzis, we should commision
> Chevrolet to design
> > tanks. Think of what this would do to the
> economy.
> >
> > First product off the assembly line would be weak
> and inferior, a mere
> > status symbol. Aluminum doors, plexiglass windows
> and an ancient
> > Gatlin gun on the roof.
>
> I'd like to know if you have the same ridiculous and
> contemptible
> phenomenon overseas as we do over here in Australia,
> which is this: the 4
> Wheel Drive all-terrain vehicle as status symbol.
> It's absolutely the
> social symbol of the upwardly mobile middle class.
> No mother drives her
> children to soccer or dancing in anything else. It's
> the most bizarre and
> sickening thing ever, they're even actively marketed
> to the suburbs to the
> point where there's a model called the Mitsubishi
> Suburban.
>
> Theories on why the hell this is would be
> appreciated too. Surely people's
> psyches aren't so shallow that it's the mere fact
> that they are higher up
> than anyone else on the road???
>
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
>
>
>
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