Atta (9): 242: Today's kick-ass question

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I think the genie's out of the bottle (this naturally traverse web we wander in right now), I think kids are gonna get weirder, there's a new wave of freaks on the horizon, and the era we're in will be remembered as a disaster of epic proportions. There will probably be plenty of places where crazed alpha males continue to hypnotize the willing masses, but there's too much strange knowledge in the world for us to ever turn back, and pockets of anarchy will naturally increase as information becomes impossible to manage.
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From: "Daniel Harper" <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com>
> I've gotta head to work in a sec, but in my darker moments I worry that this
> concept we call liberal democracy is basically coming to an end. Right now
> it's really only Western Europe and parts of North America that even pay lip
> service to things like freedom of speech and the like, there's been a
> gradual creep towards oppressive religion even in this country, and the
> forces of good can't hold off the powers of totalitarianism forever.
> 
> I'd only be mildy suprised if we aren't living in a de facto theocracy
> before my natural life has ended. And Western Europe isn't that far
> behind....
> 
> On 5/17/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >  Mike Bailey writes:
> >
> > > actually, don't you think it's really the coming thing, and that
> > lopsided power relations are
> > > gradually being phased out systemwide as unsatisfactory to all
> > concerned?
> >
> > Umm.... no. I'm somewhat sanguine about reductions in "lopsidedness" on
> > racial, sexual, and imperial lines -- but on a 50-to-500 year time scale, I
> > don't see that nation-states, corporations, religions -- or political
> > systems advancing claims akin to those of religions -- are in much danger
> > of "being phased out."
> >


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