Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!gtaylor From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Form and Substance Message-ID: <79@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 11:41:44 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.79 Posted: Fri Oct 12 11:41:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:19:38 EDT References: <947@phs.UUCP> <> Reply-To: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University) Lines: 47 Summary: Okay...I'll try it this way. Maybe Ken Perlow will try another disinfected (de-Arndt-ed) version. It looks for all the world like HLTVIII is the bug responsible for AIDS. Its origins may be Nigeria (though the Kaposi's sarcoma stuff looks similar, it's a symptom rather than a near relative) by way of the Carib. Further, serum is the media that the little cyto-megalovirus lives in,' but the transmission (read vector here) is *overwhelmingly* limited to the seriously promiscous element of the gay community...with the exception of those members of the popluation (usually hemophiliac) who cannot use filtered blood, and those (usually bisexual) in direct contac with the above mentioned. What steps are being taken in the gay community to address the issue of AIDS....control, spread, etc. I am personally inclined to view it in much the same manner as any other venereally transmitted disease (save for the obvious fact that gonorrhea isn't fatal, and doesn't have a similiar etiology)...controlling the disease is a question of habit. To the extent that the gay agenda for increased civil recognition *requires* a broad-based coalition within the gay community, does the potential "self-policing" of the gay community represent a an internal threat to the coalition necessary for gay rights? If Phil Ngai and the spokesperson on NPR for the gay/lesbian coalition last night on the bathhouse closings are to be believed, the issue *has* begun to move into the political and judicial spotlight. Must the SF department of public health move to close the bathhouses because the gay community has for some reason refused to close the places themselves? ________________________________________________________________________________ Traditionele communicatie is een controlemiddel omdat het gestructureerde, omlijnde visies opdringt. Door die communicatie te versplinteren halen we ook de controle eruit, en krijgt persoonlijke intuitie weer en plaats. ________________________________________________________________________________