[82644] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Hate Minute
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jul 1 01:04:14 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102802afdda0c9df6a@[207.167.93.63]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:04:04 -0700
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 10:46 AM -0700 6/30/97, Tim May wrote:
>At 9:57 AM -0700 6/30/97, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
>>To get elected in America, you have to give the voters someone to hate.
>>Back 10 years ago, it was criminals, then it was wetbacks, now it is
>>pornographers (and tobacco companies). Hate is just so much better as a
>>motivating force than good government (whatever "good" is).
>
>Yes, why don't we just finish the process and institute the "Hate Minute"?
Actually the story that comes to my mind is by the TV personality Steve
Allen, and if I remember correctly called, "The Hating". The then accepted
form of capitol punishment is to tie the perp to a stake in the middle of
Yankee Stadium. A cheerleader gets the assembled crowd to hate - Hate -
HATE, and their psychic energy burns the perp thru telekinesis. Quite a
chilling short story. (Also quite old. Telekinesis was then still
considered hard science fiction.)
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