brown sugar, how come you dance so sweet?
James B. DiGriz
jbdigriz at dragonsweb.org
Sun Oct 14 15:59:47 PDT 2001
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.
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