brown sugar, how come you dance so sweet?

James B. DiGriz jbdigriz at dragonsweb.org
Sun Oct 14 14:48:11 PDT 2001


James B. DiGriz wrote:

> Optimizzin Al-gorithm wrote:
> 

>> You may be interested in what David Brin writes about cultures actually
>> encouraging
>> (some) eccentricity in _Transparent Society_.   He also groks the
>> metaphor of societal
>> antibodies (and "T-cells" etc).
>
> 
> Will folks please try not to anthropomorphize, abstract concepts? Or, 
> vice-versa, conceptualize living, breathing people?
> 
> There is such a thing as being too clever by half.


After all, one man's T-cell is another man's malignant carcinoma.


jbdigriz

 







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