No doubt working oneself up into a dystopic hissy fit is adequate
justification for something or another.
Someday you will have to explain to us what dystopic emotional rants have
to do with effecting social change or revolution.
I mean, is it necessary to convince yourself that the world is utterly
corrupt before you'll get off your ass and do anything?
Is there no other motivation but the grim conviction that if you don't
act *now* we're fucked?
> > 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.
I have not criticized anyone's "work". Ever. Unless their "work" is
spreading discontent and despair...those who elbow a place at the
revolutionary table on the basis of the correctness of their
sensibilities, the incisive critique of their intellects, and their
ability to shout louder than anyone else in the faculty lounge or the
student union.
There's a reason why the intellectuals go up against the wall first.
Yet I could criticize those who work against it, if for no other reason
than their poor timing and lack of strategic skills. Revolutionary action
is *not* a ceremony of committment. It is not an opportunity to gain a
nice rush from your biochemistry for being so good, kind and helpful. Jack
off instead...
> > 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.
We have to suffer the concept of salvation whether of god or of 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
But, after 02/00, will come the inevitable depression. The repressed, no
longer able to make reparation for their acts, real and imagined, are
gonna make Ivan Karamazov look like a saint. That's our opportunity...
Calm voices rarely prevail. Prepare not only to get your hands dirty,
but bloody.
> the Jubilee won't have
> arrived;
Don't be so sure...technology is a wonderful thing in the cybergothic
dystopic future
(__) Sourcerer
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