tracy@hcrvx1.UUCP (Tracy Tims) (01/18/85)
My personal reluctance to submit to censorship is not based on some abstract
notion of freedom. I am (or so I arrogantly believe) in the process of
figuring out how I want to behave (and what I think socially desirable
behaviour is (and coincidentally, what behaviours are morally neutral))
and what a Human of the New Age will be like. I am busy working towards
that particular form of enlightenment. (I have some wonderfully idealist
goals which I expect will occupy the vast quantity of my time until I kick
it.)
I am *very very* afraid that some important piece of knowledge, some attitude,
some learning that I need to make progress will be withheld from me because
the vast brawling, stinking, repulsive mass of obnoxious, narrow minded,
INSANE, brutal sheep that make up much of the world population will fear
for their own social status quo; and will attempt to drag me into their
mire of moral and intellectual mediocrity with censorship.
That's why *I* fear censorship.
Tracy Tims {linus,allegra,decvax}!watmath!...
Human Computing Resources Corporation {ihnp4,utzoo}!...
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 416 922-1937 ...hcr!hcrvx1!tracy
PS. I want to print a tshirt that says (in large, friendly letters)
YOU ARE ALL FUCKING INSANE!
because sometimes that's about what I feel. ("Tact is just a mutual
agreement to be full of shit.")
PPS. What I really want is a social mechanism that will prevent the
moral morons from interfering with my life, while leaving me
free to explore sanely.
PPPS. I am capable of having widely disparate feelings about the same
subject (and I am comfortable with that since I don't believe I
can nail everything down firmly), and I just want you to know that
it's usually only two or three days out of each week that I feel
the vast majority of people are dead to life. The rest of the time
my attitude is more forgiving.