-----Original Message-----
From: Renee Hayes [mailto:rhayes@UDel.Edu]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:48 AM
To: Eugene L Matusov
Subject: Pokemon: the Great Satan (debate continues) (fwd)
OK, Eugene, now you have both the religious-conservative and the liberal
attacks on Pokemon...I am thinking about buying stock. Anything so
ardently despised by both sides MUST be worth a look, don't you think?
Renee
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:14:14 -0500
From: Dorothy Hickson <DHickson@npr.org>
To: "'rhayes@udel.edu'" <rhayes@UDel.Edu>
Cc: 'GiGi' <smegma@radix.net>
Subject: Pokemon: the Great Satan (debate continues)
This came in on the "Carpe Noctem" email list -- a good reply, i thought. I
don't know the sender but I guess I'll have to look up her mag online...
ciao,
dodo
p.s. hey Renee, PROMISE you'll have e-mail in Spain?
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So, I guess "Pokemon" is the vehicle of the antichrist and the coming
apocalypse?
I could have summed all that up in 20 words or less: "Pokemon sucks." Yay!
And I'm not even a christian! How DO I do it? :)
Coincidentally, though, I just finished writing an unfavorable column about
Pokemon. (For those who didn't know, I'm a columnist for Max Magazine in
North Carolina -- www.maxmag.com). But I didn't need to dig out a bible to
justify my disgust with the latest "Collect all 57" gimmick at a particular
fast food restaurant. In order to buy 57 kids meals in the 8 weeks of the
promotion, you'd have to eat dinner there
every night. Healthy! and cheap, too (yeah right).
My concern with the "occult" aspects of the game could be measured in
microgivishits -- Call me crazy, but I'm more worried about it being yet
ANOTHER contrived bunch of bullshit designed to motivate people to CONSUME
MASS QUANTITIES, dumping their money into yet
another useful and thought provoking fad (ha) rather than into anything
personally, socially or soulfully meaningful... Another symptom of mindless,
self-serving, superficial greed culture as the U.S. continues to comprise 4%
of the world population and consume 25% of its resources. Yeah, yeah, "But
we feed the rest of the world! We protect the rest of the world! We help the
rest of the world during disasters!" And this justifies the fact that fat
soccer moms spend $600 at a time for things like "matching towels and toilet
cozies" and beanie babies?
ARGH!
(There! Did I manage to sound self-righteous enough without quoting the
bible? ;P )
Jen
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