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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
(Sourcerer) wrote:
> [email protected] (Omar Haneef '96) wrote:
> >I think Sourcerer's point is that what we call dystopia is nothing more than
> >collapse of a system predicated on the oppresion of the many by the few.
> >Sourcerer is not scared that the system will fail; his fear is that it WON'T
> >fail and we will stay the way we are: notice your heroes in NASA were white
> >middle class men. ^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Yes, exactly.
BTW, it is really gratifying to see you two playing so nice together.
> Continuing my point, the dystopiacs carry dystopia around
> with them and make it possible. It's to their adavantage to propagate it.
and its a good thing we have courageous, self-sacrificing altruistic souls
unafraid to expose the mean-spirited selfishness of neurotic activists for
social change!
otherwise, readers of a.cp might be left with the impression that
self-centered civil rights movement had any right to sit at the whites-only
lunch counter.
or worse, a.cp readers might actually delude themselves with the idea that
political transformation in S. Africa had anything to do with the boycott.
yes, by god if there weren't massacres in Rwanda those selfish do-gooders
who get to goof off in the refugee camps & fight disease while we have to
sit here in front of a hot monitor, those fanatic ideological Peace Corps
weenies in their comfortable tents, would have to have passed out the
automatic weapons themselves, or find themselves out of a job.
> I fully believe a reactionary movement has odds of dominating the United
> States.
if you believe that, and even if you believe that there's nothing you or
anybody else can do to prevent it, that is still no reason to criticize
those who work against it.
> This is the result of "millennial hysteria" which infects not
> only Christian fundamentalists in the US. It is a foundation of our
> culture and we cannot "make the world a better place" until we burn it out
> of our lives.
yes, we must suffer the fools who believe a god will save us, while the
true Prophets know full well that task is reserved for Technology.
> The young will have to deal with that, and so will I, in my dotage -- a
> situation I am not thrilled about.
i'm inclined to believe that relatively calm voices will prevail; for most
people, it will be clear by February 2000 that the Jubilee won't have
arrived; & anyway we'll be busy patching calendar bugs in accounting
software written in the 70s that can't handle the zeroes in the dates, and
that nobody expected would still be in use.
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