Re: virus: Bed Time!

Marie Foster (mfos@ieway.com)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:01:01 -0800


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Hehe... and laissez faire bedtime turns them into little power hungry
dictators... and negotiating bedtime takes too much time... (The guy who
said just don't have any of the little rug rats may have had the right idea
;)

Marie, who still wonders if we have really evolved into humans after all

Eric Boyd wrote:

> Hi virions,
>
> I've been reading a list called "Taking Children Seriously" -- you might
> consider visiting them at
>
> http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tcs/index.html
>
> Anyway, I couldn't help but see this -- a cool example of a meme, I think
> you'll agree:
>
> Subject: Re: Bedtime - what is it for?
> From: David Deutsch <d.deutsch1@physics.oxford.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:56:49 +0100
>
> What is bedtime for?
>
> Compulsory bedtime has only this purpose: To make children feel
> frustrated, excluded from the world, powerless to allocate their
> time and resources, and neurotic about sleep, and to make them
> insecure about whether their values and priorities carry any
> weight at all in the scheme of things, so that when they grow up
> and have children they will feel similarly powerless and neurotic
> about time, sleep etc., in precisely the way that is required to
> make them want to enforce bedtimes upon their own children.
>
> "No, no, that isn't our purpose", I hear all you parents saying.
> But I never said it was *your* purpose, folks. It is the purpose
> of bedtime.
>
> -- David Deutsch
> Meme theorist.
>
> ERIC

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