just got a chance to look through your blog–i like the approach you are taking to this issue (self aware, critical, honest…gee). i completely agree with the frustration that simplistic and naive dismissals or props to games just polarize people and rob us of an opportunity to learn and grow about amazing phenomena current to our lives.

for instance, while for the most part i have to say i am against genetic engineering of food, you will often hear me arguing with others of the same mind who dismiss it as “unnatural.” quite frankly, it’s a bs line of reasoning that implies that somehow humans are even capable of doing something “unnatural.” in other words, an extension of the system of cartesian dualism of mind/matter and humans vs nature, which in turn props up the idea of “scientific objectivity” as if we can ever be outsiders looking in but detached (emotionally, physically) from whatever it is we are studying. in truth, whatever our object of study, we are also always studying the self.

anyway, just wanted to let you know that i think you’ve started a great thing at this site, with a lot of good info that is presented in a fair and honest manner within cultural and historical contexts.