ABSTRACT
There is no existing vocabulary for discussing AIDS. To expect one would be unreasonable since this is an event that we will be spending generations trying to understand and define. This is a challenging task in a culture that does not acknowledge truth and a community that is emotionally overwhelmed. Watch alarms going off in public places reminding their bearers to take their AZT. Men with teddy bears. Friends spreading AL721 on their toast in the morning. People spending their life savings on Ampligen or Dextrane Sulfate. Finding out later that those drugs were worthless. The fact remains that marginal people know how they live and they know how the dominant culture lives. Dominant culture people only know how they live. And so the people with the most power have the least information. And to state this is still considered didactic or extreme.
