From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 01:16:00 MST
William wrote:
> To: Michael Butler et al.:
>
>
>>- --bomb "them" (fifty thousand? twenty million? one billion? two?) flat
>>
> and
>
>>send their kids to all be raised by Clifford Huxtable?;
>>- --force the tech divide to accelerate so far that the have-nots _can't_
>>
> hurt
>
>>the haves?;
>>- --high-resolution EEG/ERP "loyalty checkpoints"?
>>- --Half the population watching the other half, aided by videofed neural
>>
> nets
>
>>looking for hincty body language caught by ubiquitous cameras?
>>...none of which are exactly off-the-shelf from The Sharper Image in AD
>>
> 2002.
>
> This is absolutely the logical extrapolation of our (USA's) current
> trajectory. and
> I do not see any other BETTER way to go about it. I find the talk of "clash
> of
> civilizations" annoying because I see it as a clash between civilization
> (i.e. the
> Western World) and barbarism/terrorism/evil/subhumanism/devolution/etc. I
> hope
> to help fight terrorism by joining the Dept. of Defense and helping to find
> better,
> more efficient ways of killing the Evil Ones who tend to be both Arab and
> Muslim.
>
<after throwing up> Do you really think that we have a monopoly
on civilization and on a right to live and on all "good"-ness
itself? Do you really think "they" (the particular "they"
changes from conflict to conflict throughout history) have
correspondingly no right to live and are actually "subhuman" and
an example of "devolution"? If so you are in fine company with
some of the worst and most deadly monsters of human history.
- samantha
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