[UA] Greetings

[Cassady Toles]

On Wed, 16 May 2001 18:38:30 -0400 (EDT), ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  > While the Sleeping Tiger seems like quite a 
  > serious danger in America (land of the Puritans and the religious
right), 
  > I'm not sure that the tiger is quite as big and nasty in Australia.
  
  Y'know, at risk of being a reactionary, obnoxious jerk American, please do
  consider the idea that your "reasonable handle on American cultures" might
  just be about as reasonable as the handle Americans have on Australian
  culture through /our/ media.
  
I don't think people have a sense of how big america is on a very real level
and how different different parts of it are.  I live within twenty miles of
three camps of the OTO, the first camp of the Temple of Set over some size
(though I don't remember what), the location where the Founder of the Church
of Satan lived until a few years ago, and an order of male, transvestite,
S&M nuns called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence:  This also happens to
be one of the largest concentrations of open homosexuals in the world.

Please don't tell me that america is land of the Puritans and the Religious
Right, or rather, acknowledge it is one of the only countries that still has
a communist party, unlimited freedom of speech, and the presumption of
innocence.

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