Letters to the Editor
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Norman Mailer is really Dead - writers strike - Movies v. Net
1,000 years from now, aliens will find our bodies - all lying prostrate under a vast superscreen - with organic headphones bio-planted inside us. They will naturally ask a question -"What did this race DO?!" - to get like that.
And the answer will be this: Imagining Things - instead of building superior weapons to prevent Alien Invasions. We are now so literate and music-filled that the species can relax into perpetual rerun... no more war, thanx - just pop another pill of ART into my sensory system.
Other than Gutenberg and the Chinese, who started us down this hoary road of fascination? It was every single publisher who had the nerve to push a book, promote a song, produce a play or create an online mag to balance our unsteady hold of Real Things, that can devastate us.
Let us not overstate the case: good writing and music are the Cure for a world gone bigIgnorant and Dumb, but mindsharing via mass media (books, TV, radio, theNet) leads us to the real revolution in civilization.
"What books, music do you like?" may as well be: So - how is the human race doing this year, exactly? Of course, I'm just a biased writer of sorts...