Norbert and the Nukes

[MonteDavis]

Right on! Every time I walk down by the old mill-stream, I look at that
overshot water wheel and see Carolingian imperialism at work: mass
conversions of Saxons under the sword, the whole nine yards.

And windmills: well, old Frans killing off the dodos wasn't the half of
it: there was all that Dutch imperialism in the East Indies, not to
mention the Manahatta rip-off. 

Coal? The Dales, black lung, strip mining. Hydro? Glen Canyon, salmon
kills, silting, yada yada yada.

Was Wiener's vision narrowed by the Burnhamite perspectives of his time?
No doubt.

Is yours narrowed by the compulsion to re-discover that They Lie To Us?

Are you open to the possibility that any application of nuclear power in
any way, at any time, might be preferable to alternatives?

Are you sufficiently careful about the potential corruption of using
computers, their microelectronics, and the Internet -- tainted as they
all are by their hot and Cold War origins?  

I'm not arguing for value-free technology, but I find it hard to buy
into your version of original sin.

-Monte