--- In [email protected], "at_man_and_brahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless you're part of the in-crowd, it's a waste > of time to post. Particularly if you intend to > write something substantive or original or both. > FFL thrives on insults and "me-too" idiocy. > > I scan FFL every day, mainly to see the 0.1% of > posts the headlines of which indicate some > major news. I've been doing that for years. > > On the rare occasion that I post something, > it is usually ignored, apparently because > there's nothing in it that fuels a personal > attack. > > This as an example of the > normative forces of the world that seek > equilibrium between the mundane and the > sublime. It's why utopia or "islands of heaven > on earth" are impossible to sustain even if > they can be created. They cannot avoid > intermixture with the dystopias that surround > them, no matter how high their barriers to > entry are built.
A genuine utopia would uplift people as they entered. > > FFL was a good idea, and like all good ideas it > attracted much to itself, most of it at a lower level. As defined by whom?
