But one could say in a more fundamental way, that the essence of the issue is never dead. We're still not quite over Vietnam for example. There's a real predicament of being out of sync with more journalistic and technological modes of transmission. So we're working with at least two or three transmission systems simultaneously. AL Yet serious deliberate thought takes time.
Thoughts become something else with time and over time.
The problem with the speed culture is you're making definite judgments in an instant and moving on to the next problem. That was a theme in Crack Wars. We have judgments without having really taken the time to consider what a definition of drugs might be. We have categories and classifications. Soft or hard drugs.