From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 13:55:56 MDT
From: Lee Daniel Crocker
>While Eli's first 3-line version of this was justly ridiculed by E. Shaun ...
>>I can't read Shakespeare. It's old, it's slow, it's barely comprehensible,
>>there are too many cliches,
"To be, or not to be that is the question."
I used these lines in my talk at the Fourth Technology Conference in Monterey. For me, it is a simple but profound piece of writing that exemplifies our extropic existence - to live or to die.
> Kipling remains one of my favorite poets. And he may have been an
> enlightened guy, for his time;
Kipling's poem "IF....." is timeless.
> Let us take Ayn Rand. (snip_
> amounts to "This is why *my* tribe should rule the world."
I hope the poem "If....." can arrest a Singularitists' tribal dogma. -:)
Natasha
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