brown sugar, how come you dance so sweet?

[Optimizzin Al-gorithm]

At 06:59 PM 10/14/01 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote:
>James B. DiGriz failed to thoroughly digest his dinner before writng:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>Damn. Souldn't have said that. I was just trying to illustrate the
>fallacy. It only just dawned on me how it might have sounded.
>
>Let's just say I used to believe I was supposed to think like this, but

>have learned or rediscovered otherwise since. So now I have to control
>the zeal of the converted.
>
>No hostility intended. and I hope none taken.
>
>jbdigriz.
>
>P..S. I do enjoy Brin et al, but I have little time  for recreational
>reading these days.

Ok -this time :-)

I was pretty much paraphrasing Brin, who (agree or not) writes of
list-relevant
topics, though with more subtlety than implied by my brief reading
recommendation.