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James Nicoll  
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 More options May 9 2005, 4:54 pm
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From: jdnic...@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:54:36 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Mon, May 9 2005 4:54 pm
Subject: Re: Influence Re: Spinrad column in Apr/May Asimov's
In article <d5og5402...@news4.newsguy.com>,
Keith Morrison  <kei...@polarnet.ca> wrote:

>Constantinople wrote:

>>>I wonder how much of it might have been due to fear that having
>>>children might have placed her in a situation where she'd have
>>>to see theory meet real world with real consequences.

>> That low and frankly dumb attack doesn't even deserve an answer.

>Low and dumb?  Why?

>I see a great deal of youthful political theorists get whomped up the
>side of the head when they have to grow up and deal with the reality
>of the world instead of their cartoon version of it, left and right.
>Sometimes it causes a moderation, sometimes a wild swing to the other
>side, but it happens all the time.  Sometimes they see something on
>their side that makes them jump to the other.

        Isn't that what changed the cyberpunk authors into adults?
They had kids and suddenly they found that they had hostages to the
future. Razorgirls aren't so kewl if they might be your daughter*.

                                                        James Nicoll

* Dismal stat I must share. I finally sifted out the stats for males
and females wrt death by injury. An adolescent girl is two and half
times as likely to die of injury as a preteen female. An adolescent
male is _seven times_ as like to die of injury as a preteen male.

        [Snarky comments about _my_ track record will be ignored. The
number of times I have been declared dead is statistically insignificant,
although admittedly non-zero]
--
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_nicoll


 
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