Question: Where are you from?
Moby: Well because I grew up, primarily in Darien, Connecticut, which is a very affluent, suburban bedroom community. And I grew up dirt poor. My mother and I were on welfare until I was 18, which was very strange because every single person I knew in Darien had very affluent families and came from a lot of money. And so it was strange.
Up until I was 18, I was basically the only poor person I’d ever met.Question: How did growing up in Connecticut shape you?Moby: Well I think it’s given me a lifelong feeling of inadequacy. Almost a sort of J. Gatsby almost sort of need to kind of prove myself sometimes. And on a positive side, luckily the public schools were really good. And all my teachers when I was growing up were very idealistic children of the 60s and 70s who saw public education as a way of really, sort of like, establishing this almost like progressive, utopian world. So I had great teachers and great public schools.
Recorded on: May 29, 2007
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Jordon Roy Gowans on February 1, 2008, 11:35 AM
I don't think affluence is important. Sure, it helps people look good, but in the end dumb people remain dumb and bigots remain bigots and predators remain predators. If anything, affluence is an excuse for dumb, bigoted predators to encourage stupid imitators, make hate seem acceptable, and violate human rights. Intellectual stimulation makes a difference but ultimately it is core values that count.
Jordon Roy Gowans on February 1, 2008, 4:35 PM
I don’t think affluence is important. Sure, it helps people look good, but in the end dumb people remain dumb and bigots remain bigots and predators remain predators. If anything, affluence is an excuse for dumb, bigoted predators to encourage stupid imitators, make hate seem acceptable, and violate human rights. Intellectual stimulation makes a difference but ultimately it is core values that count.
Jordon Roy Gowans on February 1, 2008, 4:35 PM
I don’t think affluence is important. Sure, it helps people look good, but in the end dumb people remain dumb and bigots remain bigots and predators remain predators. If anything, affluence is an excuse for dumb, bigoted predators to encourage stupid imitators, make hate seem acceptable, and violate human rights. Intellectual stimulation makes a difference but ultimately it is core values that count.
Joe Nelson on May 24, 2008, 4:14 PM
WHAT!!!!
"No one on drugs has ever done anything good"?
Has the man never heard of Hunter Thompson, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Jarry,Bob Dylan, and a slew of other brilliant artists who all used drugs?
I mean really.
Joe Nelson on May 24, 2008, 8:14 PM
WHAT!!!!
“No one on drugs has ever done anything good”?
Has the man never heard of Hunter Thompson, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Jarry,Bob Dylan, and a slew of other brilliant artists who all used drugs?
I mean really.
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