From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp*lib.org)
Date: Mon Jun 15 1998 - 20:00:05 MDT
I suggest you take that quote and factor in his quote about the future
already being here--just not evenly distributed.
Put the two together, they it's easy to find opportunities to be
uncomfortable.
Substitute "somebody/humans" for "we", if it helps.
Anyway, that's my .01 Troy oz of AU...
MMB
At 17:52 6/15/98 -0700, you wrote:
>On the topic of "Why the X-Files is Scary", William Gibson had this to say:
>
>'What we are afraid of is that we are becoming posthuman, that Earth is the
>alien planet and that we are the aliens...'
>
>I don't sound, it sounded fairly glib when he said it. Is this really what
>scares people?
>
>
>
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the product of compassion and liberty;
not one at the expense of the other."
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