[51888] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Strasheim)
Sun Mar 10 21:03:05 1996
From: Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 19:59:10 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199603110110.CAA05830@utopia.hacktic.nl> from "Anonymous" at Mar 11, 96 02:10:18 am
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> What the compromises have to do with are that one lives in
> a society with rules, mores, laws. One of those touch-shit
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Interesting parapraxis.
> facts of life. You can do what you want, but when it involves
> other people, restrictions come in. You deal with them,
> whether you are an artist, programmer, politician, goverment
> wonk, or whatever.
>
> It has nothing to do with selling out or losing integrity.
> If you want food and shelter and you're not living in the
> woods, then you have to play by everyone else's rules if you
> don't have the power to make your own rules.
>
> Was it Thoreau who said "Consistency is the hobgoblin of
> simpletons"?
Thoreau was the guy who went to jail rather than pay his taxes when he
felt the government was using the money for immoral purposes.
