Thats the weirdest statement about the dialectic I've ever heard -- it bears no resemblance to what the man was talking about whatsoever. Hegel was discussing a theory of how historical changes occur, not suggesting a way to achieve change. You also have his dates wrong -- 200 years too early. The comment also had nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of this mailing list. .pm "James Caldwell" writes:

On 25 Sep 95 at 0:06, Hroller Anonymous Remailer wrote:

It's called the Hegelian Diclectic(sp?) first postulated by William Hegel (an ass) in Germany approx the 1600's as a method for social change when none could otherwise be achieved.

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And the trashing will continue. It is the classic scenario. Feed the media negative press clips about the entity you wish to discredit (here, the Net), e.g.: 1. All those pedophiles out to lure your children; 2. Big coverage on catching some of those pedophiles; 3. First page coverage on breaking Netscape's code with the headlines that your sensitive information such as your credit card numbers, etc. can be retrieved (ignoring that the reason was to show Netscape's poorly structered code would allow this and, therefore, preventing it before it could happen); 4. Expect cryptology to crop up in the Oklahoma bombing trial. There already has been articles of those involved having allegedly used that *damned* Net to correspond.