From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 06:16:57 MST
xebec [xebec@home.com] wrote:
> Since many people out there are less positive and tend to believe
>that there will be majorly horrible events occuring in the next 24
>months ahead of us
Personally I think that there will be plenty of horrible events occuring
in the next twenty-four months, but that the eventual outcome will be
positive, in taking down big government and much of big business for good.
I would prefer the world to continue as it is and for the State to just
"wither away", but it doesn't seem likely.
>Meaning we could have religious nuts (middle east?),
>or just general doomsdayers (terrorists, etc), causing all kinds of
>destruction to our planet and our civilization.
I hardly think the actions of "religious nuts" and "doomsayers" will
compare to the perfectly rational actions of military leaders in countries
like North Korea and Iraq; the US government has taken on the task of
policing the world, the military is already overstretched and in 2000
many of its computer systems will go down. It will be a perfect time to
settle the old scores that have been boiling away under the US-imposed
"global peace", and that will take down the whole facade.
>Anyone given any thought on this? And is there anything we can
>do as extropians to prevent these useless and backward-thought
>actions from happening?.
Not really. As far as I'm concerned they're the inevitable results of
decades of global mis-management, and they're going to happen sooner or
later; US interference has just delayed them a little and made the
consequences even worse.
Mark
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