From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 26 2002 - 19:40:54 MST
Extropes,
Since no one seems to have noticed--or perhaps just
didn't comment on it--allow me to pounce upon--but in
a "nice" way--what I found to be an irresistible
straight line from Eliezer, who wrote:
"Well, I wasn't there, but if you want to know how the
sixties look from the perspective of today's average
youth, like myself..."
*****Average Youth!!!!!*****
On Singularius, the loosely federated Dyson/Matrioshka
ring world between Mars and Jupiter, perhaps.
And don't bother protesting that Jovian proximity
tends to destabilize the orbits of "the zingering",
as it is called, because, as anyone well-versed in
these matters knows, the Jovian gravity well is
converted to an advantage whenever possible, as, for
example, when it's used as a launch 'slingshot' to
wherever.
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Semi-seriously though, your assessment of the sixties,
Eliezer, is a bit glum. Despite some serious
business--Vietnam, free-speech-on-campus, and the
civil, women's, and gay, rights movements--it was a
big-ass, coast-to-coast par-tee! And you shouldn't
dis college for the masses. It, of course, has its
problems: homework, tedium, orthodoxy, hoop-jumping,
dollops of irrelevance and obsolescence. But at its
worst it is light-years ahead of not going, and
college in the sixties was seriously great: sex,
drugs, rock and roll, freedom, the good fight, and a
multivarious education--the good, the bad, and the
ugly--comin' at you from every direction, all rolled
into one tribal celebration slash rite of passage. Oh
baby, it was hot! (Sure, there were some
casualties--and we feel bad about that--but that's
just life, no matter the era. And if we didn't
achieve our utopian dreams, well,..."A man's--and now
since the sixties, a woman's--reach should exceed
his(her) grasp.")
And now it is your time, Eliezer. There are plenty of
like-minded naturally-amped-up-by-the-adventure young
people both local and globally-linked who want nothing
more than to "Party to the Singularity". Carpe diem,
my friend. I wish you well.
Best, Jeff Davis
"We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are."
Anais Nin
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