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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (48054)	4/1/2009 5:34:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 220344

Nobody I know mentions Britney, Paris etc. I don't get much noise but of course I don't listen to radio stations or watch tv and I can turn newspaper pages quickly and scan for "meat" [as in information I want, not supermarket specials or pictures of Paris]. Because of the vast diversity of interests, there will always be a LOT of noise in public information. Cyberspace helps cut to the part you want. But it's good to have the public noise to keep an eye and ear on so the collective culture stays in sight. Paris seems harmless enough to me [not that I know much]. Why the antipathy? Perhaps if you had waved a little Tibet flag instead of having your Canadian one stitched on you'd have had a more interesting response. <No one cared adversely about my small Canada flag in China > I dare say that even holding up a white flag in Tienanmen Square would get you removed. <a good hike.. but I bet it's a lot better for your body and mind than the other items.. Somehow I think that healthy folks produce a better culture > That's the popular story, but Stephen Hawking is very unfit and can hardly be said to be healthy, but his cultural contributions are substantial and the culture to which he contributes is superior to others. He even chases girls! Motor neurone disease doesn't affect sexual arousal apparently. He might even have ogled Paris and I'd be surprised if he doesn't know what she looks like. Mqurice

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (48054)	4/3/2009 5:50:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 220344

Good grief! Last night I was goofing off and decided to click around the various channels on Sky tv and came across Pamela Anderson's "roast" which involved Courtney Love and a bunch of people who are presumably "celebrities" who seemed to have nothing in common but an obsession about their genitalia, anus, breasts, fellatio and the like. I watched it for a while. They live only in tv land for people, and I doubt that they reflect actual life for many people at all, because proportionately, they were a small part of the vista across the channels but I grant you that combined into one bundle, the tv scene is not representative of VVV. I clicked across other channels and there was one outright about sex [I forget which channel it was] but it was pure voyeuristic exhibition of actual [or very closely simulated] sex, plus lots of prancing around nudity. It was purportedly of a "documentary" nature. Yeah right. While I'm aware that my digestive system does all sorts of gurgling things including excretion and that delightful little children arrive by way of genitals getting together, an obsession about those functions is limiting. I suppose they think they are liberated, uninhibited or something, rather than simply ridiculous. Oh yes, there was the drugs aspect too, with Courtney either loaded up, quite mad, or a good actor. But as I look out the window, and wander down the street, I don't see much of it so I guess it's really just attention seeking, getting some kind of tv rating, and selling some advertising or maybe tv time to excited viewers as escapist madness. Mqurice