From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Tue Dec 15 1998 - 02:25:14 MST
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From: Dick.Gray@bull.com <Dick.Gray@bull.com>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 14 December 1998 23:43
Subject: Re: Private armies
>
>
>I wrote:
>>I disagree. Anarchy will arise and endure when and where the majority of
>>people understand that governmentalism is never to honest people's
>>advantage. It's a matter of increased knowledge and ethical rigor, which
>>are certainly within the purview of human nature.
>
>Samael rejoins:
>>The majority of hte people will never understand anything. The majority
>of
>>the people are too stupid to notice what's being forcefed to them. The
>>majority of the people watch baywatch.
>
>Yikes. Fortunately for my sanity, I don't happen to subscribe to such an
>arrogant, elitist point of view. Ignorance, gullibility and apathy are not
>stupidity. When presented with an inspiring message, people will put aside
>their apathy and don their thinking caps. Obviously, they're not finding
>anything inspiring about the usual statist propaganda.
Having occasionally worked as a trainer (and thus hung around with a lot of
trainers too), I can state that in my/our experience most people, even when
they want to learn, are pretty stupid, slow and tend to give up after about
5 minutes.
Samael
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