Re: End to Extropy American Dystopia

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 14:30:47 MDT


Samantha Tennison wrote:

> Forest Bishop wrote:
>
> ""There isn't too much really new in the current US
> psychohistorical picture. Much of it was predictable,
> and predicted in overall trend. The War on Terrorism,
> for example (but not by name of course)."
>
> If it's so predicatble, do you mind sharing where you
> see this going then?

See McCarthyism, Watergate, Vietnam War, et cetera. The historical
trend is that eventually someone goes Too Far and it gets publicized,
at which time the American public (often violently) shifts things back
towards liberty.



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