CDR: Re: Insurance: My Last Post

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Wed Oct 25 12:36:35 PDT 2000



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.





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