James B. DiGriz failed to thoroughly digest his dinner before writng:
James B. DiGriz wrote:
Optimizzin Al-gorithm wrote:
You may be interested in what David Brin writes about cultures actually encouraging (some) eccentricity in _Transparent Society_. He also groks the metaphor of societal antibodies (and "T-cells" etc).
Will folks please try not to anthropomorphize, abstract concepts? Or, vice-versa, conceptualize living, breathing people?
There is such a thing as being too clever by half.
After all, one man's T-cell is another man's malignant carcinoma.
Damn. Souldn't have said that. I was just trying to illustrate the fallacy. It only just dawned on me how it might have sounded. Let's just say I used to believe I was supposed to think like this, but have learned or rediscovered otherwise since. So now I have to control the zeal of the converted. No hostility intended. and I hope none taken. jbdigriz. P..S. I do enjoy Brin et al, but I have little time for recreational reading these days.