Re: holy smoke
Erin McLaughlin (erinseyes@hotmail.com)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:48:03 -0700 (PDT)
I think you're right. I think now is just a good a time as any. Even
better, because at least people TALK about the not-so-great things now.
TO say that there were less problems in the "Fabulous Fifties" seems
silly. There weren't less problems, there was less talk about different
kinds of problems. Personally, I have trouble with the concept of
isolating one decade in time and labelling it as "better" or "worse"
than others. It's like taking a word out of a haiku and judging it on
ITS value alone. It makes no sense. Then again, maybe that analogy
doesn't either! :)
----Original Message Follows----
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:21:48 +1000
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: holy smoke
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
Reply-to: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> I'm not embarrassed of modern humanity. I'm sad, but not embarrassed.
I
> think that, given the opportunity, people choose to be good, and to do
> right. I thik people try, and if they fail, then that's sad. But not
> embarrassing. Not to me, anyway.
Me neither, and it really ticks me off to hear people saying that it
does.
Since Ancient Rome people have been whinging about how much better life
was
thirty years ago, which consolidates my belief that it's just a
fundamental
part of human nature to believe that the past must be intrinsically
better.
These times we're living in are the greatest!
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
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