[90691] in Cypherpunks
Re: Jim Bell's Sentencing Delayed Again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Sat Nov 22 10:15:59 1997
To: amp@pobox.com
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 08:44:28 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, ichudov@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.880205874.amp@ampugh.mcit.com> from "amp@pobox.com" at Nov 22, 97 08:33:20 am
From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
amp@pobox.com wrote:
> the parallels between modern america and just about an other totalitarian
> regime to date are hitting frighteningly close to home.
>
> I remember when I was told about the horrors of the nazi and russian
> children turning their parents in for whatever the state considered to not
> be proper. now we have D.A.R.E.
You know, I have been thinking about it for a long time.
My conclusion was that the government was not truly totalitarian in the
strict sense of this world.
It is the people's minds that turn more and more to totalitarianism,
submissiveness, blind belief to what they are told, and so on.
- Igor.
