From: Steve Witham (sw@tiac.net)
Date: Fri Mar 21 1997 - 17:13:40 MST
"Immanentizing the panopticon": hastening the day when everybody can spy
on everybody. Improving communication and "access" faster than you're
improving security and privacy.
"...immanentize the eschaton. This phrase is from conservative historian
Kurt Vogelin and refers, in technical theological language, to the heresy
of the Gnostics, who wished to produce heaven on this earth instead of
postponing it until after death." --Robert Anton Wilson
Mage, The Storytelling Game of Modern Magic
"Don't let the _other_ guy Immanentize the Eschaton."
-- (according to deirdre@efn.org (Deird'Re Brooks))
--Steve
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sw@tiac.net Steve Witham
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