I'm amused by the new Ban Fiction! movement here at FFL, and that the people who are calling for restraint and censorship seem to be doing so to protect their investment in even larger fictions.
Judy wants to ban a slightly fictional TV series because she's afraid it would expose the larger fiction that American voters are intelligent enough to tell fact from fiction and then vote for the fact. Ken Woods wants "rules" to keep people from being "aloud" to write fiction that he feels is disrespect- ful to Maharishi. The fiction that *he* is trying to protect is that anyone outside a few fanatics in the TM movement still respects Maharishi. And Sparaig is against fictional practical jokes (in this case a joke that *HE* made up, and that wasn't even part of the conversation before he inserted it there) because he's convinced that they could cause heart attacks. The fiction that he's trying to protect (like Ken Woods, who he is trying to support without appearing to do so) is that some things are too serious to be laughed at. Go figure. I just think it's fascinating that two of the people who have spent the most time of any FFL posters in history defending the numerous fictions of the TM movement and repeating them for years as if they were true are now ragging on fiction. And the third protester, who obviously lives in a *completely* fictional universe, is so offended at someone writing a fictional parody of Maharishi that he believes the universe *itself* is going to inter- cede and punish the "bad people writing such evil words." The funny thing is that all three of these people may actually be onto something. No, not that fiction needs to be banned or controlled, but that it's become unnecessary. When you have people acting like this and claiming that *they* represent reality, fiction has definitely become superfluous. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
