Excerpted from a *much* longer message.
JDG
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>On another note, I see people have been talking about Lord of the Rings...
>a book whose inherent morality I detest almost as much as Star Wars.
>(Don't get ANGRY Luke! Eet weel make you EEEEEVIL!)
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> But there is one fellow I think is far worse... Ralph bakshi.. I know a
>few of you have heard me talk about Baksji's movie WIZARDS... which i
>contend to be the most evil film made since Nazi propaganda. If
>arm-twisted, I could be persuaded to reprint what i wrote about that. But
>see if you can steal a copy and watch it first. Share your opinions here.
>I'd be curious to see what you think.
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>With best regards,
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>David Brin
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>PS... What do I think of the morality of STAR TREK? Well, except for being
>a bit politically correct and prissy (and the fact that all species can
>somehow interbreed... and want to!) I find ST to be morally just fine. I'd
>like to leap forward and find my descendants made a nice goody fancy-pants
>federation. Then I'd scratch my armpits, belch, and have fun stretching
>their proud sense of tolerance to the very limit.
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>Anyway, a culture with holodecks is unlikely to have many sexual hangups.
>It sounds like a perfect way to solve the problem of human males. Only let
>them out when they get bored with being cavemen and are ready to be
>gentlemen.... ;-)
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John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #3527685
"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of isntitutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
