About the article mentioned below.

I think that what people with this type of viewpoint overlook is that
human beings have a desire for authenticity. We're not just content to
live on "good feelings" - if we were, we'd all be looking forward to
the day a "miracle happiness drug" comes out.

We want our feelings to be in concord with reality. Even if we know
that we cannot touch reality, we try to get close. If we feel and live
a relationship with somebody, we do it on the assumption that it has
some reality - that is it not just fictional or delusional.

We may not be able to attain perfect a perfect collision between what
we feel or think and what is real, but we try to get close. It is a
legitimate desire, and one that gives meaning for us to the world and
our lives.

So when we find that somebody has (voluntarily!) led us to feel things
that had no connection with reality, we feel cheated. We feel mad. And
it's a perfectly normal reaction. We do not want to live in fiction.
We want to live in reality.

Denying this problem is missing a whole point about what life is and
how people function.

There ; ) - I think I've repeated myself enough in this email... I
hope my point gets across.

Tara - who isn't ashamed of wanting to live in the *real* world.

Je réponds au mieux de mes connaissances...
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----- Original Message -----
From: <saundra@...>
To: <kaycee-nicole@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: [kaycee-nicole] More Media Coverage


>
> Jon Carroll's defense of the whole situation in the San Francisco
> Gate:
>
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001
> /06/05/DD140021.DTL