From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 13:18:52 MDT
> (Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>):
>
> >>(Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com>):
> >>
> >>That is, I see a libertarian utopia as either solitary (where we each
> >>exist in different universes) or highly chaotic and unstable (anything
> >>goes).
> >
> >You say "chaotic and unstable" as if those are bad things. Only dead
> >things are stable. Life is chaos, uncertainty, risk. If your "utopia"
> >is safe and clean and easy, I'll have no part of it.
>
> Whoa! I assume this is over-stated. Are you saying that
> safe/clean/easy is unlikely, is dangerous, has side-effects, is too
> boring, or what? A blanket statement that you reject safe/clean/easy
> solutions seems to merit further explanation. If something were really
> simple/safe/clean/easy, why would you reject it?
I wouldn't say "overstated", but it is, as much of what I write is,
soundbite-ish. Even so, my image of hell is a life without risk.
Everything that makes life interesting and valuable and desirable is
unpredictable. If the world ever became a static utopia where there
was nothing to struggle against, nothing to strive for, no dangers to
overcome, what's the point of my existence? There's nothing wrong
with that struggle being /toward/ safer, cleaner, easier, etc.; it's
just that I don't want to ever reach a point where I'm "done". Life
should be like a research project--every new discovery should bring
up more questions than it answers.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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