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To: Ilaine who wrote (2929)	8/4/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2971

>The things we did when we were kids ~ if my kids do any of the stupid things I did, it would give me a heart attack.< In some ways I think that everyone having TV has done two things. 1) It's alienated us from flesh reality. "Ground truth". To some extent. You have to be a Sensitive to escape having your microethics - do you buy your own pens, do you tell the cashier of an over-refund, do you slow for a left turn entrant - eroded. 2) We all know now how bad we can be to one another. Jeffrey Dahmer and Bill Clinton are sheetbearers for opposite corners of some sort of moral disinhibition. (Gawd. I sound like a Falwellite.) (But it's true. I just don't have a one-book answer, is all.) So I think the world was less palpably dangerous to the young and naive. When we were kids - you stayed away from certain urban locales where the predators roamed. The predators are all over now - and they've shed their distinctive marks. People are so much more armored now. In the old days saying Hi to a stranger was a courtesy. Now it's the artillery beforte the assault. Can you tell I woke up from bad sleep?