Word: blissed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raised in Captivity" opens with the funeral of Miranda Bliss, the mother of Sebastian Bliss (Padraic O'Reilly) and Bernadette Dixon (Nicole Columbus). The funeral brings together Bernadette and Sebastian for the first time in years and forces them and the people close to them to re-evaluate the purpose of their lives. Sebastian, we soon learn, isn't the small-town boy made good that everyone takes him for; in fact, he's lonely and deeply in debt. As Sebastian searches for a way to change his life, Kip Dixon (Jed Silverstein), Bernadette's husband, undergoes a similar crisis...
Reared by separated parents whose fuzzy New Age philosophy was that children should follow their bliss, Jessica was encouraged to pursue an adult ambition that ill fitted her. After her death so many of the bright words that preceded the trip take on a grimly poetic quality. Her father, in Cheyenne after the first leg: "This started off as a father-daughter adventure, and it's gotten wonderfully out of hand." Jessica, to the Times of London: "I'm going to fly till I die." Her father: "I think I finally got my job description in order as a parent...
...state for the record that I am not speaking to those who thrive on the clubs. I am not speaking to those for whom membership poses no question of integrity. I will let the ignorant continue in their bliss. Rather, I am specifically talking to you who pretend to be so innocent. I am speaking to you who think nobility is merely having moral qualms about club membership, but drink away such a dilemma in the company of female hordes. I am speaking to you who passively participate in what is to your female friends a sexually offensive atrocity...
Attempting to find the perfect combination of people is futile; however, each of us believes that it can be done. Sadly, there are many casualties in this pursuit of blocking bliss. Current roommates are divided; space fills up, and friends are left in the cold; offers are rejected. We feel additional pressure with the advent of randomization, as we frantically try to come up with a complete blocking group of 16 in a desperate attempt to avoid being exiled to the Quad...
Indeed, Smolan's site gave few indications that cyberspace is anything but a realm of bliss. Among the thousands of images that streamed into San Francisco were ghetto kids in California playing computer games, Buddhist monks spreading the word online and wheelchair-using students in Thailand communicating with disabled kids all around the world...