Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:22:38 -0400
From: Michael Betancourt <mwb2-AT-netside.net>
Subject: Re: Revolting


>What if censorship is FUN? Are you going to deny me my joyous freedom?
>Surely censorship can be just as liberating, just as creative, just as
>enjoyable, and just as valid? Censorship too is a kind of murder.

This argument is based on a faulty premise (supported by a metaphoric
association, rather than sematics and history) and that is that censorship
is the same as murder.

Censorship is a devise used to controll heresy in our culture; it is the
application of Taboo to eliminate a position that questions that Taboo, or
openly ignores it. When the nature or censorship is understood, there is no
question that it is the opposite of liberation; it is imprisonment. For some
reason you keep presenting agruments where the meaning of the terms used is
completely reversed.

The Latin words it's directly derived from: censor (critic) and  censorius
(rigid, severe) and censura (judgement) all carry the implication that this
is NOT an opening of possibilities, but rather a shutting down of them. 

Why has everyone gone off on this tangent and forgotten what Surrealism is
directly about? [This whole argument is about the lateral effects of
Surrealist exploration, rather than the exploration itself.]

-- Michael Betancourt
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