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<DIV>Maybe people should be uploaded via cell-phone...</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 12/23/08, Dagon Gmail <I><dagonweb@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px">From: Dagon Gmail <dagonweb@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [ExI] Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power<BR>To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR>Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 5:38 AM<BR><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote>The only positive thing is that such people will probably be first<BR>against the wall in a real breakdown.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>I want nobody against a wall, period, but I think we should keep a close eye on<BR>these people, as a society and through our governments. These people have means<BR>and motive for mischief and I don't trust people with these ideas, as surely as I wouldn't<BR>trust those leather-booted angry young men singing, throwing leaflets and cursing at the<BR>bolsjewiks at those neurenberg beer halls. <BR><BR>I know a girl, love her to death and always will, who says<I> blank faced</I> the world is being<BR>raped by human expansion, industry and technological progress - and that the world<BR>would be better off it 95% of humanity died, one way or another. My clarifying that this<BR>would in itself probably
finish of the world, or describing the misery people would suffer<BR>in the process, or that we have alternatives - doesn't make any impression. Worse,<BR>while she still considers me a very intimate friend, she now considers technological <BR>progress and wrong and even IF it provided an alternative, still wrong, because. <BR><BR>I think this is a class of people who have started confusing being excluded at some<BR>levels by a stratified system, are starting to hate the world instead of the forces that<BR>cause stratification and disparity. I think she somehow senses she isn't fully benefiting<BR>from modern society and hence she misattributes this failure to technology itself. <BR><BR><BR></DIV><PRE>_______________________________________________
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