At 10:06 AM -0700 8/21/97, Zooko Journeyman wrote:
A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Ray Arachelian <sunder@sundernet.com>" typed:
Meethinks (not speaking for Tim) that years under a fascist natzi-like regime bent on ripping out all out freedoms one by one and confiscating all things threatening to it would cause any awake person to lose any compassion for the scum that run our Freeh country.
BULL SHIT.
This is a cop-out, used by emotionally stunted men to excuse themselves from their solemn responsibility to ethically justify their own actions and to deal fairly with their fellow humans.
By reciting mantras to one another emphasizing their sense of having been mistreated and their sense of having _unquestionable_ moral superiority, people in this situation persuade each other to become more and more fanatical in their attitudes, less and less in touch with reality, and less and less compassionate towards the "others" who have been demonized in the process.
I have written truly large numbers of posts explicating my philosophy. You may not agree with my point of view, but characterizing me--as I assume you were in your response to this thread about "Tim's heart"--as merely reciting mantras to others is false. It is you, B., who have generally been inactive on the list for quite some time, only occasionally dropping in to snipe. Referring to us as "emotionally stunted men",,,now there's a solid argument for whatever it is your position is.
Note that this process _always_ includes a group of other humans which are demonized in order to serve as a scapegoat and as a concrete focus for the participant's negative emotions.
You mean like "emotionally stunted men"? Or do you mean like the characterization of list members as "socio-economic cult" members?
But I will _never_ take one of these actions while intoxicated by a cloud of hatred and self-righteousness. I will _never_ tell myself that I am part of a sacred jihad which absolves me of all guilt, and I will _never_ re-classify my enemies as sub-human in order to justify my treatment of them.
So take a fucking BREAK man. Just get up from the computer and go for a fucking walk in the mountains and think about your fucking family and loved ones.
You sound like you're ranting to me. Lecturing others on their anger while writing "take a fucking BREAK man" and foaming about sacred jihads and emotionally stunted men.... Physician, heal thyself. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."