---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :
This whole discussion is just text to me. You are all fictional characters — shall I compare you to reality? Now BarryWorld sounds like a great amusement park, at least from the viewpoint of onlookers outside the park. Inside the park, the goal is to get to the other side of the park. After some experimentation, perhaps the filtering algorithm could be adjusted so that, on average, only those with an IQ of, say, 120 would make it to the other side. Designing the 'rides' should be a blast. For example in The Crop Circles of Machiavelli ride, one has to navigate a seemingly endless circular labyrinth of spiritual-political mayhem in order to come out as the leader of other ride participants in your group by convincing them you are an enlightened messiah, that you know the secret knowledge of how to get to the other side of the park. And in order continue that at the next park benchmark, you have to set up a spiritual blockade to prevent as many other ride participants from advancing by creating a new religion that will bamboozle them into giving up independence of thought. In other words BarryWorld is an interactive social experience and each 'ride' allows one to navigate one's internal conceptual world and adapt it to override and overmaster the other participants internal map of reality. The goal is to discover the park's map of reality and make it your own, for if you do not, you cannot make it through. Enjoy the bawee carnival, I'd rather have an appendectomy.
