*Big Brother builds 'Truman Show' village* http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1333306,00.html Ursula, appalled in north bay JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote: > ><<That reminds me. German TV is setting up a Truman Show town; they hope >people will live there for years. A psychologist disapproved, she >thought they might have problems when they encountered the "real >world".>> >'Scuse me??? More details? Explain please?! If you are saying what I >think you are.... >Julie Krueger > > >========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, >decisions Date: 10/24/04 12:44:50 PM Central Daylight Time From: >_judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: >_lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: >Sunday, October 24, 2004, 6:11:59 PM, Eric Yost wrote: > >EY> It all seemed very defeatist to me. > > >Oh don't say that. I decided to see Alien 3 again tonight, I don't >need advance gloom! > > >EY> Corporate control is >EY> unassailable so concentrate on flashy clothes and kung fu, locate >EY> the nexus of evil in the "Smith" character rather than the >EY> (corporate) machine rule, and by Matrix 3, reach an accommodation >EY> with power rather than supplant it. > >EY> I mean, why bother? If that's all they get for their troubles, they >EY> might as well have remained in the Matrix and raised Matrix families, >EY> argued about Matrix current events, and gone on yearly Matrix vacations. > > >That reminds me. German TV is setting up a Truman Show town; they hope >people will live there for years. A psychologist disapproved, she >thought they might have problems when they encountered the "real >world". > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html