From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Dec 26 2002 - 02:58:50 MST
Phil Osborn wrote:
> I got into a long discussion at a Saturday night
> holiday party this last weekend, in which the
> rationale for the upcoming (?) Iraq war was debated
> (yawn) for the nth time (n to infinity).
>
> However, I introduced a hypothesis which I have
> thought about for some time, but never expressed:
>
> To wit: suppose Bush & Co. understands what Conrad
> Schneiker was saying in 1978 about the exponential
> growth of the power of destruction outpacing the
> capacity of defense, and Conrad's follow-up corollary
> that the only surviveable high-tech society is one of
> universal surveillance.
>
> If so, then Iraq is just the beginning. A convenient
> place to start the American Imperium, to impose
> surveillance on the entire world. How else could it
> be done? And if the alternative - for the moment - is
> universal annihilation, then what could the objection
> be?
>
>
So you would like us to choose between hell and non-existence?
I will take the "third choice", thanks.
- samantha
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