[extropy-chat] Reccommendations for a mailing list

[Samantha Atkins]

It was a pretty different political world back then.   I wasn't as 
scared of my own government.  There was no 9/11 and everything 
thereafter.   This really isn't the "good old days".

Acting the same in very different circumstances doesn't seem wise.


On Feb 10, 2005, at 8:45 AM, Bryan Moss wrote:

> Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:
>
>> Interesting, I am on this list since about 2000 and always found it
>> very interesting. But I have missed the golden age 1992-2000. In which
>> sense the list was better back then?
>> G.
>>
>
> I've been here since '96 or there abouts.  They were talking about the 
> golden age back then too, of course, but it was much more pleasant 
> than it is now, or perhaps I was more naive.  There wasn't so much 
> political talk, mostly because any "socialists" were quickly scared 
> off by the gun-totin' libertarian hardcore, or talk of current events; 
> it was all forward looking, abstract, almost as if nobody had been 
> outside their Y2K shelters in years.  It was wonderful and outrageous.
>
> BM
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