gav, Its a reasonable remark from one point of view. -In the sense that what ultimately kept the serf bound were the chains of the mind, not knowing anything different. There are always those who, for our own good of course, are willing to tell us how to live our lives. As far as the "Left" attribution:
'The Left" is anyone pushing a social agenda and using government to do it. In the US, that would be either the Democrats or the Republicans at any given moment. I can't speak to Oz, politics, but paternalism is always a denial of freedom. If one restricts the possible subject matter of dialog it is a clear gutting of the presumed right of freedom of speech. Diminish the freedom of speech and you reduce the scope of useful thought and in a death spiral the endpoint is enforced ignorance, which rhymes with serfdom. I'm not so keen on label-rhetoric, but the mechanism is clearly there for control. Only the collective WE makes the outcome. thanks--mel ----- Original Message ----- From: "gav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [MD] On the road to serfdom > serfdom? are you talking of regressing to some sort of medieval agrarian existence? > and if so how do you extrapolate that from net censorship? > > > <snip> Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
