From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2001 - 14:13:03 MDT
--> Greg Burch
> From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
> To: "Extropy List" <extropians@extropy.com>
>
> > I ran across this URL:
> > http://www.servtech.com/~grugyn/afgh-01.htm
> >
> > Obviously a somewhat inflamatory document, but discusses
> > the fact that our "war on terrorism" may be 3+ years old
> > and the fact that annual terrorist activities have been
> > impacting people in numbers that are of the same order of
> > magnitude of those who may have died this week (i.e. this
> > is nothing new).
>
> Robert, did you LOOK at the website the page you cite is found
> on? I never
> even got whatever point you were trying to make because I wasted
> a half hour
> sitting here with my jaw dropping. Even though I've spent a good deal of
> time researching the lunatic white-supremacist, black helicopter crowd
> before, this site was so extreme I was glued to the screen in horror.
> There's plenty of good information on the Afghan/Islamist crisis becoming
> available now from reliable sources. I don't want to re-ignite
> the "tainted
> source" debate we had here recently, but do understand that folks from my
> side of the humanities/science divide see a reference to a source
> like that
> as evidencing a lack of judgment about the cultural context of
> the material
> you're passing on.
Context aside, you can occasionally dig up some interesting stuff from sites
such as these. Links to things like the Open Conspiracy by H.G. Wells:
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/littleton/hg_cont.htm
Which would seem to be of interest to extropians. I had quite forgetten half
of the non-fiction that H.G. Wells had produced...all reading I did back in
the day. I'm turning into such an American; too much time spent in front of
a terminal, not enough time spent reading books.
Reason
http://www.exratio.com/
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