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From: charliep@tekgds.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.nude
Subject: clothes
Message-ID: <1486@tekgds.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Oct-83 03:43:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 14 03:43:52 1983
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Some well-acculturated American recently proclaimed that
	"Clothes make the man".
I say, instead, that "Men make the clothes", which is true in any of its
several interpretations.

In fact, I propose that the former cliche is one of the more
anti-humanist and anti-human falsehoods that have plagued human societies.

Q. Do you think that usenet communication gives you a truer understanding
   of other correspondents than might be obtained by seeing how they dress,
   or even how they FAIL TO dress?

To further rebut the cliche that prompted my response, I submit that
indeed, wearing no clothes provides people with a cogent and immediate
*sense* of their human nature! (not to mention a pleasant escape from
being "clothed-minded")  I am assuming for the sake of kindness that the
use of "man" in the cliche does not specify sex.

Or, indeed, "No clothes make the man".

Charles Perkins

PS. To userid riddle (who was made by clothes) -- you ought to check out
    Lake Travis for skinnydipping.  I envy your geographical proximity
    to this beautiful recreation area.
PPS. I would be VERY LIKELY (other things being equal) to vote for someone
     who ran for political office naked.  Such a person, I suspect, would
     be likely to represent an entirely new way of thinking to our other
     cowardly legislators.  The point about naked people having little
     influence on world affairs, however, overlooks the fact that many
     influential people run around naked during times when they are not
     exercising their powers (i.e, for relaxation).