Alice in Monsterland.

October 23, 2001 12:47 PM

Alice in Monsterland. "Certainly it's more pleasant for a 7 year old boy or girl to learn to be a boss in Denver, than spend 60 hours a week in a Peshawar sweatshop. The problem is, one implies the other. The moral critique will never realize the world is one."
posted by Paul Dunne (6 comments total)

ugh....tried to read it, but that background and text color were atrocious. any point the author was attempting to make was hindered by that visual distraction and the rather vague and convoluted way s/he wrote.
posted by calyirose at 1:00 PM on October 23, 2001

Um, I was less concerned with the black background and light blue writing (which seemed rather easy to read to me) than I was with the pedophiliac (?) content on the page. Interesting thing to debate, yeah, but how about a Not-For-Work-Viewing warning on the first link??
posted by bcwinters at 1:30 PM on October 23, 2001

Don't you think there's a difference between paedophilia and
reasoned discussion of issues connected with same? I mean, is
"paedophilica content" really what you see in the piece?
posted by Paul Dunne at 1:34 PM on October 23, 2001

Yes, I read it, but I don't know what the piece was about. That was some very illucid writing. Has the art of the paragraph been lost?
posted by yesster at 2:00 PM on October 23, 2001

Well, from my perspective it was paedophilica apologetica -- definitely a "not-for-work-viewing" entry. Of course, so is Naked Lunch, a fine piece of (extremely disturbing) fiction.

That said, it wasn't even an interesting paedophilica apologetica.

Why did you post this? Not flame baiting ... trying to figure out what you saw would come of this in terms of dialog.
posted by bclark at 2:14 PM on October 23, 2001

I think the piece is a critique of modern culture, and the pedophilia bit is just an illustrative device.

But it is hard to be sure.

Granted, the old model of "intro/thesis/exposition/summary" is rather boring, but (unlike this piece) it at least has clarity on its side.
posted by yesster at 2:49 PM on October 23, 2001