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.