Thanks, James, for another thought provoking response. I hadn't considered that artifice might have neutral or even positive connotations. This opens the door to exploring those layers of civilized behavior that are beneficial, and the Taboo Man's approach to them.

Until next time...

-Lynn

Lynn, in many ways our perceptions of organic human tradition have been so warped by the semantics foisted upon us in our youth, that discussions like this are necessary for our sustenance and must be necessarily denied to the mass of humanity, ideally through state education and commercial media, in order that we might be fruitfully harvested by our planters.