[65005] in Cypherpunks
Conjuring up the latest utopia for a minoritarian sect of illuminati
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Mon Sep 9 11:45:56 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:21:57 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
At 10:04 AM 9/9/96, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>I and you may well choose to do so, but the vast majority of the human
>beings believe just anything that is repeated loud and long enough.
>Otherwise, nobody would hire PR and pay for advertisement, politicians
>wouln't be fedwith taxpayer's money, Bosnians would trade goods instead
>of gunshots, etc. I'm personally not interested in conjuring up the latest
>utopia for a minoritarian sect of illuminati: I need to live in the real
>world, and push for viable solutions that change it for better, now.
Yes, Bosnians and Serbs would not be killing each other if only they could
receive government-approved information!
(Hint: This shows that neither governments nor churches nor the United
Nations knows any better solutions to the "who do you trust" problem. And,
I believe, mostly governments and other such entities exist to serve their
own interests.)
As to what I presume is an insult to the folks on this list ("I'm
personally not interested in conjuring up the latest utopia for a
minoritarian sect of illuminati"), you know where the exit is.
--Tim May
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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