<div dir="ltr">We are witnessing a John's slow drift toward the left for several years now.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:01 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Legionara </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:legionara@openmailbox.org" target="_blank">legionara@openmailbox.org</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Take from the rich and give to the poor and everybody is poor.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">As Bob Dylan would say </div>The Times They Are A-Changin'<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> ; not surprising I suppose as we approach the Singularity. 3 examples: </div></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">1) Slogans that I myself would have spouted until very recently no longer make sense to me.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">2) Due to the advance of technology, for the first time in human history it is no longer a economic necessity that somebody be poor.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">3) Strict adherence to classical libertarian dogma, will lead to the collapse of civilization </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4">And if you think these 3 changes in thought are <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">all </div>that will be necessary in the future then you just don't understand what a meat grinder the Singularity will be. Flexibility will be essential for survival and these are just the first 3 baby steps. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div></div></div>
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