From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!pcmcgeer
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Refresh on Addiction Discussion
Article-I.D.: watmath.2606
Posted: Sun Jun 13 17:44:44 1982
Received: Mon Jun 14 01:00:48 1982
References: utcsrgv.382

	This point has generated far more discussion than any I have seen
on the net, and I have weighed in several times already.  I still don't
believe in computer addiction, and I'm not by any stretch of the imagination
an "addict", closet or otherwise, myself.  However, stipulating for the sake
of argument that such wacked-out creatures exist outside of the fertile
imaginations of Weizenbaum and Sterling, I would still remind *everyone* of
G. K. Chesterton's dictum that "freedom is the right to be our own potty
(or, I suppose, addicted) little selves"
	It's time for the friends of Liberty to speak out!  If someone calls
you a computer addict, chain yourself to your terminal and tell him to
stuff it.