>From: GBurch1@aol.com
>In a message dated 8/25/00 11:07:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
>zero_powers@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Small rural communities differ from a transparent world in one huge
>way.
> > People who live in small rural communities tend to have a common
>culture.
> > They go to the same churches, belong to the same organizations and
>because
> > the community is small, each member tends to have a much greater
>influence
> > on his friends and neighbors than he would have living in, say, New
>York
> > City. Whereas in a ubiquitous transparent society, the culture would
>be
>an
> > amalgam of many disparate cultures (again like you have in New York)
>and
> > since no one culture will hold sway over any other, tolerance will be
>the
> > natural result, as you have (for the most part) in New York.
>
>This would be true in the Kabul of the Taliban? I don't think so . . .I
>think you better have the values of tolerance in place before you get your
>ubiquitous surveillance.
Can't say. Don't know much about the Taliban. Don't know *anything* about
the Kabul. Nonetheless I think the principal holds true, even if it is not
a rule without exceptions. Sure, I'd rather have tolerance first and then
transparency. But if transparency is ready for prime time before ubiquitous
tolerance, give me the transparency now. I'm willing to wait for the
tolerance, which without tranparency may *never* come anyway.
We've never had either ubiquitous transparency or tolerance, but
transparency is advancing by leaps and bounds. I don't know that the same
can necessarily be said about tolerance. Your mileage of course may vary.
-Zero
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