From: strength@milton.u.washington.edu (Julian Bleecker)
Subject: Re: PHIL: Escape into the artificial world (Was Re: SOC: Social 
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1992 00:08:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Mar17.000827.23845@u.washington.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


In article <1992Mar16.195943.6349@u.washington.edu> bew@brahms.udel.edu 
(Ben Williams) writes:

>Virtual Reality is the latest attempt of Western White man to turn away from
>the natural world into an artificial one, since he can't hack it with the
>former.  HE has lost it and he is totally lost...

Classic PHILosophizing.  Please, Ben, be substantive so you don't
sound baseless.  Under what presumptions do you base such a
(androcentric) rant?  Did you just read an article on the burning rain
forests or is there a lurking criticism of VR here?  Please note that
I am a Black man, albeit mostly westernized---I too have trouble with
the natural world.  I also consider myself a radical feminist, so
maybe i'm not "totally lost..."  But "HE (Western White man)" does?  I
believe that there is a substantial audience of women here who are
attempting to build the technology of VR.  Are they excluded from your
concerns?  Are all women atavist?  I see no basis for the assumption.