Re: Are \"they\" really the enemy?

Responding to msg by jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon) on Thu, 
18 Aug  4:46 PM


Jim (and other respondents),

These discussions are pretty invigorating and I look forward to 
reading them.

Just want to say to Jim that the following remarks of yours 
made about someone's earnest thoughts:

>Personally, I find these statements very disturbing, 
>because they are so  empty.

Might be applied to your own later comments:

>You won't tear down the government without replacing 
>it.  And I would  argue that the more violent the means 
>used to tear down the government,  the more repressive 
>its successor.  Governments exist in part because  we 
>are such dangerous animals.

This rhetorical ploy comes across as an apology for the status 
quo and seems to offer counter-revolutionary cant instead of 
your best arguments for making rational, evolutional 
improvements to our inheritance.

My preference is for hard-wrought and hard-fought prickly 
specifics to easy, dreamy generalizations.  Even though both 
enrich the brew.

If this topic does not get blown off this list I would like to 
offer some specifics responses to your good stuff.

What say, c'punks, is this topic okay here?  Tim?  Anybody?  
TLAs?


John

> If this topic does not get blown off this list I would like to 
> offer some specifics responses to your good stuff.
> 
> What say, c'punks, is this topic okay here?  Tim?  Anybody?  
> TLAs?
> 
> John

My name invoked again? I haven't been reading the arguments here,
except by skimming to see if anything new or amazing is presented, so
I won't comment.

As to what's appropriate for the list:

- I'm not in charge of the list. 

- The list didn't even control Detweiler, so it's pretty unlikely to
bar or ban this kind of debate.

- Personally, I think this thread is drifting off into very general
and often rambling debate about government. I'd be a lot more
interested if there were some tie-ins to crypto policy and technology.

But, again, we're not control freaks around here, are we? It's always
easier to simply skip a thread than it is to try to legislate
discussion topics.

--Tim May


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