Edited by author 11-10-2001 01:12 PM
Is the Sterling Pokemon quote supposed to be somehow brilliant? Or insightful? Good ghod. Read it OBJECTIVELY, for Christ's sake. It is in fact one of the most insipid and banal observations (ostensibly and mistakenly passing for perceptive) I've EVER read. and the fact that it was assumed to be worth quoting as a "blurb" speaks volumes concerning his fans.

does Bruce know that Pokemon are digital creations, not genetically altered biological beings?

so presumably when we tire of our little pets we can just turn them off and decompile their programs. no mess, no fuss.

disposable love... i think that says something scarier than genetic engineering gone mad. though i don't know what.

Those scary Tokyo alleys appear in the latest Pikachu adventure...I think I understand now how all the feral Pokemon got there.

There was a bit on NPR last year about the problem, in Japan, of "dog fashion." People adopt dogs of fashionable breeds (huskies after the release of "Balto," dalmatians after the release of guess-what) and then ditch 'em when fashions change or when they realize that big energetic dogs and small apartments don't mix.

Imagine, twenty years from now, the same sort of thing happening with little GMO pets. Parents might, out of nostalgia, buy their kids good 'ol Pokemon and Digimon animals, only to have them rejected and neglected. The alleys of Tokyo fill with rotund little yellow parrot-rats, their numbers kept in check only by the amazingly viscious gobemon . . .

It wouldn't surprise me if the Pokemon designers had already licensed their work to a few select Asian genetech companies....