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>From: moravec@Think.COM (Hans Moravec)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,rec.arts.sf.misc,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: _The Turing Option_
Date: 28 Aug 1992 18:36:42 GMT
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References: <COSC176T.92Aug26010939@menudo.uh.edu> <BtLGA4.8sy@newcastle.ac.uk> <1992Aug26.192343.1144@kbsw1> <1992Aug27.160940.6008@auto-trol.com>
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In article <1992Aug27.160940.6008@auto-trol.com>, stedee@auto-trol.com (Steve Deemer) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug26.192343.1144@kbsw1> chris@kbsw3.UUCP (Chris Kostanick 806 1044) writes:
|> >People today live longer and eat better than at any time in
|> >history. This is scarred and desolate?
|> >
|> >Chris Kostanick
|> >"Range, 1000 yards"
|> >
|> Some people do.  Some starve to death in the streets while others
|> watch on TV, then switch channels to watch re-runs of "Star Trek"
|> because it's not fun to watch people die.  I think that qualifies
|> as "scarred and desolate".

	Yes, television is at the heart of the problem.  In 1300, 50% of the
Aztecs could die of starvation caused by a war, and those of us in the rest
of the world could calmly go on with our lives, without any need to help,
or any guilt about it whatsoever.

	In 1990, in Somalia or Yugoslavia, rival gangs of the indigenous
population attack charitable contributions from strangers far away,
preventing help from getting to where it's most needed, and television
shows us the pictures, and all the rest of us are expected to feel guilty,
and to denigrate the success we've made of our own lives.

	You're right, technology is making things worse.  Let's get
rid of television.

				-- Hans Moravec





