Spaceship Earth

Henry M gravity at nicom.com
Tue Dec 10 23:43:37 CST 1996


Hello     ,

Mail's been down. Good to be back.

A-and here I thought that Spaceship Earth was a Bucky Fuller idea. 
Perhaps it takes a spaceship instead of a village.



On 10 Dec 96 at 16:22, ckaratnytsky at nypl.org wrote:

>      Steely, I'm so confounded by this that I hardly know what to
>      write.  What are you saying, please?  I am unfamiliar with
>      Spaceship Earth.  What is the Tragedy of the Commons?  You
>      *are* being ironic here, aren't you?
> 
>      Or, are you saying that racism is implicit in my dis of the
>      dumbed-down Voice?  And/or, are you saying that a dis of you is
>      implicit in my dis of the Voice?  Gah!  Am I an idiot?  What
>      the fuck?
> 
>      You are likely being too subtle for me to "get" your intended
>      meaning, especially without knowing the allusion you've made,
>      but clarify, clarify, or I won't sleep tonight, goddammit. 
>      (A-and, yes, duh, I *am* familiar with Dr. Strangelove.  At
>      least.)
> 
>      Chris
> 
>      (Ready to run off into Central Park like mad Sweeney)

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