<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">The Avantguardian</b> <<a href="mailto:avantguardian2020@yahoo.com">avantguardian2020@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I say: Down with the two party system! To try to reconcile the tropics with the North Pole or Antartica is silly. It is stupid that I convince myself to vote for Coke or Pepsi when what I really crave is orange juice.</blockquote>
<div><br>Having voted outside of the box in several national elections I can only beat my shoe on the table in agreement.<br><br>The reality, unfortunately, and one which "we" may not adapt to easily is that while many people on the list are adept at balancing N-dimensional spaces, the "public" (which is buying those newspapers) is not.
<br><br>Now, this leads to an interesting question -- is the destiny of humanity multispatial? Does the direction and politics and news of Smartski (Deepski?), CA differ significantly from the direction and politics of Slowski (Shallowski), CA? [1] You can view it as an orthogonal vector to red v. blue. A second interesting question is whether the power brokers can afford to allow humanity to become multispatial? [2]
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. For those outside of New England, Comcast (cableco) has been raking Verizon (phoneco) over the coals with a very aggressive advertising campaign with respect to people who have DSL connections (the "slow"skis) vs. people with cable internet connections (the "fast"skis).
<br>2. Oh those "slowskis" back on Earth aren't doing anything productive with their materials -- "All their materials are belong to us."<br></div></div>