Don, far be it for me to question your Political Credentials ;-> . I'm sure
you're the holiest of us all (my only claim to fame is running the
computers for the '92 Brown campaign in Maine (but at least we won)).
>I find this present approach arrogant and undemocratic at best.
>It is a threat to every democratic principle I know about.
Oh, please: do you think anybody's really listening to us?
>Cybernetics
>in politics? Not a new idea....will go whether we impress the membership into
>slavery or not. I don't oppose that. I do oppose having a perfectly good
>discussion group taken over by demogogs.
^^========== demagogues, I think.
>Clear?
Fight speech with speech. Maxim 1: "Everything is connected to everything
else". Cybernetics' ultimate aim is political. How can a Unified Science
exclude our own social structures, the way we control our own social
institutions? The ultimate predictive power of MST Theory is that of social
evolution. This is Politics big time, buddy.
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