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>From: morpheus@entropy.mcds.com (morpheus)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,rec.arts.sf.misc,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: _The Turing Option_
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Date: 4 Sep 92 05:14:41 GMT
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tp0x+@cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Price) writes:

> Say you want a revolution, you'd better free your mind instead. And you can
> do that at a library, for heaven's sake. Any library. 

Interesting to see Beatles lyrics in alt.cyberpunk... why not crosspost it to
rec.music.industrial?  (sarcasm, yes)

> The fact that nobody does, and maybe four out of a hundred thousand people
> can even conceive of what that might be like, is the real bottleneck.

The thing is, the average person doesn't care.  Give them their Budwieser and
their sitcoms and they're content.  (okay, maybe that's a little harsh, but the
basic idea valid (I think))

> But the information is there. In what ways are cyberpunks information-poor?

Beats me, I wondered the same.  Sure, an individual cyberpunk may have less
information than TRW, but certainly more than Jon Q. Publik...

> The only people I can think of who could be called information-poor are
> people without basic reading skills or leisure to use them.

Scary the amount of people that your statement includes..



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  "The Hell Law says that Hell is reserved exclusivly for them that believe in
  it. Further, the lowest Rung in Hell is reserved for them that believe in it
  on supposition that they'll go there if they don't."-the Principia Discordia

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