From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 18:47:49 MST
At 11:13 AM 28/02/01 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
>I stumbled upon the work of a rather remarkable fellow. One JD Bernal.
Eek. I started to comment: a leetle bit like saying `I stumbled upon the
work of a rather remarkable fellow. One--' But then I wasn't able to find
a name where most of the folks here under the age of 50 would have a clue.
Oswald Spengler? Julian Huxley? Aldous Huxley for that matter? Arnold
Toynbee? Arthur Koestler? Alex Comfort? Oh well. (And why do so many of
these people's given names start with `A'?)
>Good read. Very extropian. With one exception,...which I'll leave you to
>discover on your own--a small surprise.
I'll spoil the surprise, because it's so salutary. J. D. was a committed
and brilliant Marxist (like his equally brilliant and far-seeing
technophile compatriot J. B. S. Haldane).
Damien Broderick
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:06:09 MST