At 10:04 AM 9/9/96, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
I and you may well choose to do so, but the vast majority of the human beings believe just anything that is repeated loud and long enough. Otherwise, nobody would hire PR and pay for advertisement, politicians wouln't be fedwith taxpayer's money, Bosnians would trade goods instead of gunshots, etc. I'm personally not interested in conjuring up the latest utopia for a minoritarian sect of illuminati: I need to live in the real world, and push for viable solutions that change it for better, now.
Yes, Bosnians and Serbs would not be killing each other if only they could receive government-approved information! (Hint: This shows that neither governments nor churches nor the United Nations knows any better solutions to the "who do you trust" problem. And, I believe, mostly governments and other such entities exist to serve their own interests.) As to what I presume is an insult to the folks on this list ("I'm personally not interested in conjuring up the latest utopia for a minoritarian sect of illuminati"), you know where the exit is. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."