At 12:03 AM 6/9/96 +0000, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:

On 8 Jun 96 at 12:40, jim bell wrote:

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As you can see, this is one of the big difficulties that people can have understanding AP: Since it changes just about everything about how a society works, you can't analyze it "easily" using your built-up knowledge of societies.

Actually, it makes one realize that society and the "collective" is nothing, that the basic building block is the individual. If you analyse the motivation of the individual, AP is not difficult to understand.

It is, however, hard to separate out all the familiar assumptions we make about the world based on the current way of doing things.

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As I've said so many times before, AP is like a political Rorschach test: Your reaction to it is strongly related to your political philosophy. That's part of the magic.

Please stay out of magic. The actual politician are enough into it.

Well, I was speaking hyperbolically. (hyperbole.) Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com