CDR: Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?)

[Jim Burnes]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
> At 9:11 PM -0500 10/18/00, Neil Johnson wrote:
> >Two Things:
> >
> >1. It sounds like to me that there is no room for human compassion in
> >crypto-anarchy.
> >     (Seems like we will all end up sitting in our "compounds" armed to
> > the teeth and if anybody comes along we either blow'em to bits or pay
> > them anonymous digital cash
> >to go away).
>
> Another socialist simp-wimp heard from.
>
> Lots of socialists to be dealt with and disposed of. I wonder who
> will stoke the furnaces?
>

Wow.  The imagery!

Actually the best way to deal with it is by a memetic vaccine (what would
the equivalent be in memetics? mezzine? someone fluent in latin help me
out here).

I really think that humanity will discover that a lot of what humans call
beliefs are really just widespread memetic plagues.  When memetic engineering
reaches the same stage in scientific development as biology has, much
of the 'isms that regularly wipe out entire populations may be brought
under control.

And humanity can move on.

(But not before memtic and nanotech warfare resurface the planet 
in some unpredicatable way, no doubt).

jim

-- 
Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of
himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we
found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this
question.	-- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural