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By a not-so-strange coincidence, this conflict is prominent in lots of recent movies, among them A Walk on the Moon , Metroland , and Among Giants , which explore the natural impulse to settle down vs. the equally natural impulse to be wild and free--the yearning for permanence vs. the claustrophobic dread of monogamy.
So my impulse is to think, as you do, that despite the murder of Matthew Shepherd, that gay-bashing is fading.
When I read a sentence about Tom Hanks like "Wherever he goes, a treacly, white-guy triumphalism seems to follow," I wonder what impulse causes you to add the words "white guy" to the sentence.
What I meant in saying that techno has cultural-political significance is that it's the medium of a counterculture; techno fans are looking for ecstasy (I mean the state of mind, not the drug, though that too), for a kind of erotic communalism that's basically missing from the larger culture right now ... but where the '60s counterculture was anti-technological (even though rock 'n' roll was totally dependent on technology), this one resonates with the techno-utopianism of computer freaks (I'm not saying the techno audience is computer freaks or overlaps with them, I really have no idea, just that there's a common impulse there).
The report also claims that “the underlying impulse driving age-retardation research is, at least implicitly, limitless, the equivalent of a desire for immortality.”