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comment by davidreiss666
davidreiss666  ·  4693 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: SOPA and PIPA
I don't know if I buy this argument. It's been made before:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_...

It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...





mk  ·  4693 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I think convincingly.

Also, the Bloomsbury Group, the 1927 Solvay Conference, the Junto Society.

IMO it's not enough to just have the people. It's the people, the place, and the times.

katakowsj  ·  4692 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Is it too late to get Charleton Heston to get people whipped into a frenzy challenging SOPA and PIPA to pry the uncensored internet from his cold dead hands? Someone not dead? Charlie Sheen?