--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
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