On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Dale Thorn wrote:
hjk wrote: ....
I wonder who is so brainless, not to understand what's going on. Do you really think the subscribers are pure Idiots?
Well, Heinz. You live in a country full of people, ordinary people, variously called the hoi polloi, the sheeple, the unwashed masses, and other interesting names.
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Now whatever you think of your fellow citizens, or even those of the USA (to name an example), I'm sure is OK on whatever basis you apply your judgement. But I guarantee you that the people on the cypherpunks list are no more or less intelligent than the people who vegetate in front of their TV sets every day, right there where you live, in all probability. If you believe that your fellow citizens vote intelligently, then I respond that cypherpunks vote intelligently. What do you think?
Well, I thought cypherpunks claim to be elite. Heinz-Juergen Keller hjk@ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de