At 2:08 AM -0400 10/24/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/magazine/text/excerpt.asp?afl=rsn&lngF eatureID=120&lngStyleID
What's in your top five from the past year?
Being John Malkovich; East Is East; Shall We Dance? I liked Gladiator a lot - I thought that was an excellent movie. I loved The Matrix. I loved the metaphor. Somebody gigged me in the mainstream media for not liking too much violence in the movies but simultaneously liking that movie. Well, you know, it was rated for adults. It was very violent, but it was a terrific movie. And I can hardly wait for the sequel.
This is not new. Al Gore was enthusiastic about "The Matrix" and then the Columbine shootings happened. He back-pedalled and began explaining away his enthusiasm, with language like the above, about it being suitable for adultsbutnotchildren, etc. This says more about the culture of political correctness in politics than about his actual views. (Sort of comparable to the demands by some on our own list who periodically demand that list members "denounce" acts of terrorism or whatever it is they don't like. "If you don't come out against the bombings of federal buildings, then you are as guilty as the bombers.") --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.