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>From: holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes)
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Subject: Re: _The Turing Option_
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Date: 11 Sep 92 15:36:27 GMT
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In article <3274@ariadne.csi.forth.GR> tripaki@danae.csi.forth.gr (Stavros Tripakis) writes:
>(perhaps late, I've just discovered this list...)
>
>	 (Mike Wiik) writes:
>|> 
>|> I'd argue, though, that there's very few
>|> people today who live in the kind of freedom enjoyed by our hunter-
>|> gatherer forbears....
>|> 
>
>		EXACTLY !!!
>
>
>	(Jason Asbahr) writes:
>|>
>|>  Well, our 
>|> 'net is pretty amazing all by itself...its chief advantage
>|> over television is that it we can *respond* to it and through it...
>|>
>
> NO !!! Do you think freedom means listening to my + a million other's
>nonsense ? What did I say ? LISTENING ?! Not EVEN THAT !
>
>Communicating ! you'd say... Exchanging ideas ! Arguing about things !
>
>Sure...I'm long and deep into it myself. BUT :
> Communicating about what !? Exchanging ideas about what !?
>Arguing about what !? JUST FOR THE ARGUING ITSELF , that's what !

This is the most important human activity, and the freedom to do it is
real freedom.

>
>You see, when you lose your threads to your NATURE you try to find a
>substitute, whether that's called football, thrash metal, or cyberpunk
>lists. (Ooops, getting nasty, eh?)

The best way to find out what your nature is is to think about it, and
one of the best ways to keep your thinking in line is to talk about
it with other people.  Be reassured, though, at the outset.  You can't
lose your nature; it is always right here.


>
>Preaching:		SHIT MAILING LISTS !
>			FUCK NEW PRODUCTS !
>			GO OUT ! TALK TO PEOPLE, NOT CABLES !

I'm talking to you, not the cable.  You might as well say "Talk to
people, not the atmosphere in front of your mouth!"

>
>
>Stavros Tripakis (from Greece)
>
>PS. Address your responds also directly to me, I don't I'll be
>   watching the list for long
>
>-- 
>
>	Been Dazed and Confused for so Long...
>

;-^)
-- 
The opinions expressed		|     --Sincerely,
above are not the "official"	|     M. Randall Holmes
opinions of any person		|     Math. Dept., Boise State Univ.
or institution.			|     holmes@opal.idbsu.edu


