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To: lorne who wrote (1812)	9/6/2002 9:46:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

Re: And why do you enjoy freedom of speech? do muslim controlled countries enjoy freedom of speech? or is that just for civilized countries? LOL... C'mon Lorne, you're fully aware that the so-called "freedom of speech" doesn't apply to innocuous internet forums... The freedom to utter one's dissent over the internet is like the freedom to shout in a vacuum! (Actually, it's even worse for a vacuum won't hurl abuse back at you!) It merely amounts to the freedom to think out loud... Orwell capsuled it pretty well: All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Technocracy and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived. Physical rebellion, or any preliminary move towards rebellion, is at present not possible. From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is. They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly; but, since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining. What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect. In a Technocracy member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated. [...] From: Subject 33609