[103756] in Cypherpunks
RE: importance of motivation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Sat Oct 3 10:52:48 1998
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:29:14 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04011716b23bc9b09817@[139.167.130.249]>
Reply-To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
'Twould be nice if rationality waned for a generation or
many, give us time to recover from being overdosed with
it since the ahem Renaissance, and suffering the damage of
Renaissance Persons with pseudo-mastery of more than
they know how to handle except to blow the shit out of a
world they cannot truly comprehend except as a clueless
wad defying self-annointe High IQers.
De Toqueville adored patronizing the "American People" of
his time what they were good and bad at (one of the earliest
promoters of AADD). And every Sheeplemongering weenie
who lusts to be Somebody whips out the bullfrog's constitutional
and citers it as wisdom for the masses needing superior
guidance -- that is from-the-mount sermonizing from the
wannabe mighty-mites who really just want to avoid hard labor,
an agenda the masses don't get advised to abide.
What's inspiring about misbehavior, for whatever cause,
is that it drives the Reasonable People, those who know
so little they need armoring with tin-thin rationality, into a
panic of recognition of the alluring siren call to chuck
overcontrol and enjoy getting under the thinskin of the
hypo-rougers of a reality ever shedding its skin for new
realities.
Up ADD, hurrah for hyperrationality, the way past
certain knowledge and comforting wisdom of the
way things are not, never were, never will be.
Medevial superstition, plague, sloth and licentiousness,
now there's a cheap Ritalin for science and economy and
law and decency all too reasonable, all too nearly
inescapable, all too non-fictional to be believed.
