Rochester Writers

I was amused by his analogy comparing dramatic openings of media and culture to the awakenings of the catatonic encephalitis patients portrayed in the aptly named Awakenings.  These awakenings were facilitated by a drug known as L-DOPA, which Lessig noted to the audience. Why is this amusing? Reading a step further into the analogy, it is hard to ignore the psychiatric side effects associated with this drug, which are altogether not unlike the symptoms of schizophrenia. I have little doubt that this was not Lessig's intent, though at the same time I can't help but wonder if there might not be some accuracy in reading too far into his analogy, in both minor and significant ways.