From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 22:38:35 MDT
> > PS And for a moment I actually thought this list was still about freedom.
> > boy what was I thinking. Gee wilickers, silly me! Shucks!
> >
> QueeneMUSE@aol.com wrote:
> We encourage you to be excessively sanctimonious about your beliefs - and
> snide in your judgments of others. Double posts on the same topic are
> encouraged, especially if they are contemptuous to the other members of the
> list.
Easy, Queene, caustic humor is allowed here, even encouraged at times.
{8-]
Freedom in the face of the advance of technology is a tricky subject.
I had a thought on it today. Every person here, even the transparent
society fans, have a debt to John the Revelator. His notion of a mark
of the beast, etc, has caused our society to have a kind of embedded
fear of big brother. This has caused us to take a most cautious
approach
to the advance of transparency.
Nowthen, transparency is coming, of course, there is no stopping it,
and many of us do not want to. But it is a good idea that it advances
slowly enough that we may have time to think out every step and
compensate down the influence of government as transparency increases.
We have time to recognize, for instance, that with increasing
transparency,
the libertarian party has a chance to actually get one of ours elected
for a change. spike
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