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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (21401)	7/18/2002 5:30:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

DJ, I don't really idolize people. But some are definitely admirable. The ones who seek power by confiscation, murder, threats, imposts and other involuntary interaction are at the other end of existence from our Great Benevolent Hero, who is providing the means for voluntary interaction by free-will bearing people, trading value for value in the best of Libertarian tradition. To compare the Great and Wondrous Uncle Al with Adolf, Kim Il Sung, Stalin, Mao etc shows a passing attachment to reality. I repeat my praise in fulsome tones in equal and opposite reaction to the mindless vehemence of those who rant and foam against him in expletives, curses and demented fury. I do that partly to poke a thumb in their blind eye, but also to bring illumination to their dark caves of bewilderment assuming they still have one eye partly open. The observer creates the image. The picture of the galaxy was the work of people. Whether it's a daub of paint, or the amazing complexity of a Hubble telescope collecting photons from deep space and cyberspace delivering them to you via fibre and silicon, it's the process of creative genius which created the images. I know which I think is the greater work of art. Mqurice

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (21401)	7/18/2002 8:04:16 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Well, I'm reading your post again. Our Great Idol accomplished a lot. For 15 years, he has run the greatest currency the planet has seen, without having to base it on silly excavation of metal and reburying it in a futile and wasteful effort. Digging up and reburying gold is a pointless waste of time and effort. People could be doing much more useful things, such as playing golf or sitting happily in the sun. You are right that 'the masses'* sometimes follow false profits, as happened in the telecosmic cyberspace frenzy, Adolf and Mao. But mostly, the Matrix of Malevolence types don't have a massive following so much as a cowed majority, with enough voluble and violent followers to make it look like 'the masses'. Anyone who doesn't shout Sieg Heil, Long Live Chairman Mao or kneel to Allah in row upon row of compliance, will soon feel the touch of the whip, or worse. It's easy to get a crowd in such circumstances. The fact that there are false profits doesn't mean one shouldn't admire wondrous, amazing and fantastic achievement by somebody, such as the great and glorious Uncle Al. Nihilism isn't the sensible response to Saddam, Adolf, Mao and other alpha-male tribal chimpoid murderers. Adulation of the great and wonderful is still the right approach. The Matrix of Malevolence can only exist when the Great and Good first construct a reality which the Matrix of Malevolence can then seek to pervert and destroy. To be or not to be? That can only be asked when one is. Just is, Mqurice * ... [A badly out of date term of collectivity, which falsely lumps individual minds together - there is not yet a 'mass mind' though often enough, common ideas appear to form, only to dissolve into individual states of consciousness and survival not long after]