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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