From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 03:20:10 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
>
>Since Them are the rest of the human race, and since this forum is avowedly
>transhuman, it's easy to see how it would attract some people whose
>principal orientation to the social world is *ressentiment* (in Nietzsche's
>sense). This can take the discursive form of equally lofty and prickly
>disdain for those who do okay in the world. I don't think too many of the
>people on this list with lucrative jobs and kids of their own have been
>engaged in this strange dog-eat-dog who-do-we-kill-first uber-kaffeeklatch.
>
>Later, Eliezer quipped:
>
>>It's a vast, anti-infant conspiracy.
>>
Damien, are you in fact saying that it's a vast conspiracy of the
unemployed and / or childless? I hope you are not going to suggest they
are all taken out and shot and describe it all in gory detail, are you?
(sorry, bad humor). But sometimes if you don't laugh you'd go bonkers.
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