[extropy-chat] Election results and Leviathan

[Gennady Ra]

At 09:12 AM 11/6/04 -0800, you J. Andrew Rogers wrote:

>On Nov 6, 2004, at 2:25 AM, Gennady Ra wrote:
>>    The hot story in the Blogosphere is that the "erroneous" exit polls that showed Kerry carrying Florida and Ohio (among other states) weren't erroneous at all - it was the numbers produced by paperless voting machines that were wrong, and Kerry actually won. As more and more analysis is done of what may (or may not) be the most massive election fraud in the history of the world...
>
>Tinfoil hat nonsense and propaganda.

Well, probably I picked it out of despair. A drowning man will catch at a straw.

As I wrote to another list participant in a private message: 

Somebody from Frankfurt school, perhaps Horkheimer, said that "totalitarian 
regimes of the 20th century cannot be destroyed from within." That is, their 
apparatus of suppression and control is so effective and perfect that 
inner dissenting forces will be unavoidably detected and neutralized. The 
Soviet Empire was destroyed from without, due to efforts (I simplify) of the 
Americans, Ronald Reagan and SDI bluff. It seemed a blessing but as it 
turned out the Americans did it just to clear their way to their own, 
ultimate totalitarian state, an invincible mixture of Middle Ages mind and 
modern technology. (And what is worse: hammer and sickle or cross?) This 
time there is nothing in the Universe from without left to come and save us

The Americans do not have a hunch for totalitarianism, and complacency and 
placidity of some are truly astounding but we, experienced, here in former Soviet Union, 
watch in utter despair how the Beast has come and foresee that the Leviathan 
will grow and devour everything. 

And alas, I do not believe that free people in America love their freedom 
more than those who caught the power love the Power and are ready to fight 
for their liberty in the hot civil war. (And who can fight the ultimate 
Leviathan? It will contradict the Horkheimer's dictum.)  

Not very extropic and dynamically/practically optimistic message...

Gennady
Simferopol Crimea Ukraine