From: Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Date: Tue Jun 08 1999 - 22:55:32 MDT
Date sent: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 23:39:21 -0500
From: Darin Sunley <rsunley@escape.ca>
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: META: Not another flamewar (BUT RE: a bit of GUNS & a bit of
(meta?) rhetoric
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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> "Joe E. Dees" wrote:
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> > Sparta was the prototypically fascist society. People were a lot
> > less free in Sparta than in Athens, or here.
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> Uhhh, better then 90% of the population of Athens were slaves. Sans technology, enlightenment
> comes at a heavy price. (Catch 22?)
>
The citizens of Athens (the non-slaves) were less constrained by
their society than were the citizens of Athens, which also had a
great many slaves.
> Darin Sunley
> rsunley@escape.ca
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