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FleshFactor: Re: NAIVE LIBERTARIAN ATTITUDES
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i've been reading the pattie maes posts about agents, and also the stuff
about the libertarian naive.
cspace has a problem with its social paradigm, in my opinion. it is a
paradigm that does not seek diversity (and i am not talking pc "diversity"
i'm just talking "different from --------")
i first began to think about this issue in 93 when i was studying bach's
'art of the fugue.' i studied it, but there were parts that confused me.
so i went to usenet and i asked if anybody knew or was madly in love with
art of the fugue. & i got i think six replies, which led to some
discussion. at that moment i saw that if i wanted to, i could live an
unchallenged intellectual life: i could, if i wanted, seek out
continuously the six other people on planet earth who agreed with me on
any given question, because the internet would help me to find them.
i think that this tendency in the net has also something to do with the
way that the virtual community thing works: virtual communities tend to
be groups of homogenized social-consumption, a paradigm which differs from
geographic based communities in that in geographic communities, you're
kind of stuck with whoever shows up.
homogenization is a problem in cspace society. the agents, i agree, will
make it worse.
I agree with Ebon Fisher when he rants about the naive libertarian
attitudes in cspace about the body. I am supposing that everybody who is
on this list knows that just BEING in cspace makes a person a member of a
kind of self-selected elite just because of what it costs to be in cspace.
I'll go a step further, too, and call attention to that lovely phrase that
the krokers use, the "virtual class" & note that one of the defining
characteristics of the members of the virtual class as the krokers see
them, is a tendency towards "willful naivete."
I think cspace is a colony of the usa. I think we ought to be
deconstructing it as if it were india during the time of kipling or
something.
Carmen Hermosillo <Carmen.Hermosillo@seagatesoftware.com>
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