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At 05:00 PM 9/29/2007, Olga wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">From: Natasha Vita-More<br><br>
> I think The End of America (Wolf 2007) is playing off The End of
History <br>
> (Fukuyama 2006). I also think that Wolf is running in a pack
with others <br>
> (Moore (Sicko), Gore (An Inconvenient Truth) who are marketing their
ideas <br>
> by emphasizing big implications.<br><br>
And "marketing" is the operative word. I agree with
this.<br><br>
> Here is the issue: Are American's critically minded enough to
discern <br>
> accuracy from hedging? If "we" are foolish enough
not to know that <br>
> America has become a fascist country, then are "we" not
foolish enough to <br>
> be fooled into believing anything that gets promoted?<br><br>
"We" do seem to be that foolish enough.</blockquote><br>
This is an instance where a pronoun does a disservice. Isn't if
simply awful to included in this type of "we"?<br><br>
Time for Extropy and the forces of critical thinking.
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a> </font>
<dd>PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium -University of Plymouth - Faculty
of Technology,
<dd><font size=2>School of Computing, Communications and
Electronics</font>, <i>Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive
Arts</i> <br><br>
<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller</font>
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