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From: [email protected] (Sourcerer)
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Subject: Re: Dystopia, at last...
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 95 02:14:30 GMT
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In article ,
[email protected] (technical boy) wrote:
>In article ,
>Sourcerer wrote:

>> On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, technical boy wrote:

>it is reasonable to ask, how can i have ``legitimate'' self interests when
>the self does not exist, only a society of mind? there is a choice of
>either ascetic annihilation--spending one's entire day contemplating The
>Shape--versus hedonic indulgence.

So, you have discovered a use for metaphysical matters?

>but there might be a middle path. and if inconsistency is the price of
>completeness, then i consider that a fair bargain.

voila!

>> The word "after" should be considered--after the expectations are
>> unfulfilled. "Religious fanatics" limits millennialism; it is a
>> fundamental concept of American culture informing everything from the
>> Puritan foundation to Manifest Destiny to the futurities of science
>> fiction to the post-politics and post-industrialisms of the WiReD
>> ToFfLeRiTeS to environmentalism to etc...

>> "The repressed" is used colloquially, referring to those who have
invested
>> their energies in millennialism...putting off fulfilling their desires
>> today in anticipation of a future reward. There is no future reward.
>> They will not be happy campers.

>> Their confusion and despair and Karamazovian indulgences are an
opportunity
>> for the thugs to massacre the lot and set up a functioning society. I
>> mean, *their* hopes and dreams might have come to dust, but the rest of
us
>> have a life...

>oh. then i hardly misread you at all, then. you still listening, motley?
>Sourcerer says its ok to kill them, too, if we want.

I don't really believe you misread me, but I realize how discomforting it
must be.

>and there's no need to worry, motley. the cyberthugs have got it all
>figured out how to ``set up a functioning society''. why, i believe they've
>consulted Doctress Neutopia, the Henry Kissinger of cyberspace, on the
>matter.

And so you are going to dance off again, busking for god knows who.

>> I believe the establishment of hermitages and monasteries has been
>> effective in previous new beginnings.

>i see, the lumpen will not tolerate just any old atrocity to set up a
>Functioning Society; we can count on you, not to burn down the hermitages
>and monastaries.

Hope springs eternal...

(__) Sourcerer
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