On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:35:53AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
It's not so much that he's "wrong" as that he's "naive." He arrives on the CP list and begins regurgitating socialist blather he heard in his poli-sci and sociology classes. Junk about mandatory health care,
True, true. It's probably not worth our time. It's not that he's not educable -- although we see no indication of that yet -- it's that there are better uses of scare resources. Anyone hoping to be taken seriously should at least have read some of the basic cpunk literature. And he has not.
As I have said, and as Lucky just said this morning, the list has for some reason attracted a whole set of such naive and puerile people. One theory is that it's the "fall crop" of students. Another is that
Probably. I remember on Usenet circa '91 we'd see an influx of freshmen polluting otherwise useful newsgroups. Lots seemed to come from psu.edu, for some odd reason.
increasingly leftist and interventionist. (We have a Canadian branch of the Cypherpunks which is apparently led by a neo-fascist civil rights crusader who wants guns banned and is distrustful of free market solutions.)
Righto. While anyone who wants to can call themselves a cypherpunk, anarchic labeling and all that, it's clear that some folks just don't get it. It must have something to do with being Canadianized. Only folks from Alberta seem to get it right.