Re: Are \"they\" really the enemy?
Responding to msg by jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon) on Thu, 18 Aug 4:46 PM Jim (and other respondents), These discussions are pretty invigorating and I look forward to reading them. Just want to say to Jim that the following remarks of yours made about someone's earnest thoughts:
Personally, I find these statements very disturbing, because they are so empty.
Might be applied to your own later comments:
You won't tear down the government without replacing it. And I would argue that the more violent the means used to tear down the government, the more repressive its successor. Governments exist in part because we are such dangerous animals.
This rhetorical ploy comes across as an apology for the status quo and seems to offer counter-revolutionary cant instead of your best arguments for making rational, evolutional improvements to our inheritance. My preference is for hard-wrought and hard-fought prickly specifics to easy, dreamy generalizations. Even though both enrich the brew. If this topic does not get blown off this list I would like to offer some specifics responses to your good stuff. What say, c'punks, is this topic okay here? Tim? Anybody? TLAs? John
If this topic does not get blown off this list I would like to offer some specifics responses to your good stuff.
What say, c'punks, is this topic okay here? Tim? Anybody? TLAs?
John
My name invoked again? I haven't been reading the arguments here, except by skimming to see if anything new or amazing is presented, so I won't comment. As to what's appropriate for the list: - I'm not in charge of the list. - The list didn't even control Detweiler, so it's pretty unlikely to bar or ban this kind of debate. - Personally, I think this thread is drifting off into very general and often rambling debate about government. I'd be a lot more interested if there were some tie-ins to crypto policy and technology. But, again, we're not control freaks around here, are we? It's always easier to simply skip a thread than it is to try to legislate discussion topics. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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