[ExI] Electoral College and 1177 BCE

[David Lubkin]

Spike wrote:

>Eh, memewars don't really wreck stuff all that much.  It just causes 
>us to be pissed off at each other.  That can be easily enough 
>repaired, more easily than bombed out factories, destroyed 
>infrastructure and farmland, crippled people.  With memewars, we 
>have the option to just stop at any time, to become a memewar 
>non-combatant, an option I chose some time ago.

I thought the reference was more to John Barnes's memewars, with One 
True and Resuna. In that future, which could lie ahead,  just 
stopping isn't an apparent choice. And those memewars could be plenty 
destructive.


-- David.