Re: FWD: Re: Marx required angelic robots

1998-09-16 Thread Durant
Well, I actually lived there. I don't apologise for the system as if you read carefully, it is not what I am proposing for the future. However, the "Big brother" scene was greately exagurated, it existed in the "personnal cult" era of Stalin and some leftovers such as the romanian chap. From

Re: Judge for Thyself Who is Right

1998-09-16 Thread Eva Durant
None of your characters are right in this tale; There is no such thing as absolute freedom (Jesus), the best way to define it is by e freely, individually made (continuous, dynamic) collective decision. No totalitarian elite - however intelligent - will be able to provide happiness for us. We

Guardian version of Soros' in US congress (fwd)

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Gurstein
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:17:31 -0700 (PDT) From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "unlikely.suspects": ; Subject: Guardian version of Soros' in US congress Capitalism falling apart, says Soros

Re: Marx required angelic robots

1998-09-16 Thread Tor Forde
Hi Eva! Durant wrote: Jay Hanson: for this deformity, and why do you think we would willingly repeat the same mistakes? Why do you think we won't repeat the same mistakes? I am afraid that history is on my side Eva. Jay Hanson knows nothing about history. actually, after a

Position Announcemnt (fwd)

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Gurstein
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:19:35 -0700 From: Suzanne Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list PUBPOL-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Position Announcemnt _-- Public Policy Network - Posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --_ Redefining Progress

Re: Judge for Thyself Who is Right

1998-09-16 Thread Jay Hanson
From: Eva Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] that is what human progress is about. We are able to learn "Human progress" is not science -- else it would be explicitly defined and measured. The belief in human progress seems an attempt to make sense out of our senseless lives and transcend our personal