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- From: amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Clinton Space Position
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 10:42:00 GMT
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- > because it's being done, but there's a point of view that there's
- some
- > benefit to not being extensively involved in the politics of other
- countries.
- >
-
- I will agree with John that mucking about in other nations politics
- with guns is probably not on.
-
- But the very media in which we are now communicating is the death
- knell of the nation state, or at least as we have known it. We are
- ONLY at the beginning of this, which may be hard for some of us to
- recognize since we have been involved with network chats for 10-20
- years (When I first connected to ARPANET there were about 20 sites on
- it)
-
- Yes, Japanese advertisers may pull out advertising in something about
- Pearl Harbor because they don't like to be reminded that they started
- a holocaust and ended up reaping it themselves: the first time in
- their history that the "Divine Wind" was on someone else's side. You
- had better believe that was a hard knock. They not only lost the war,
- but they had their religion turned against them. Well, one of these
- days our Japanese compatriots will start taking more of a part in
- this forum and others and will have their chance to be taken to task
- ... and to tell US directly what they think is wrong in the US and
- Europe and elsewhere.
-
- That will make us all richer in understanding. There is no better way
- to have your pet ideas undermined than to get a viewpoint from
- someone outside the rhetoric of your society point them out.
-
- I would go furthur and say that there are probably quite a few
- Japanese students and faculty that "listen in" to this forum but who
- are afraid, for cultural reasons, of taking part in the network rough
- and tumble. Well, I personally invite you to come in and express your
- ideas ... and take critique of everything you know and believe in,
- just like the rest of us do.
-
- We are the vanguard that is taking the eraser to the silly little
- lines on the world maps. You know, the ones that you can't see from
- the moon... And we need a thousand Henry's (Hmmm, a KiloHenry?) to
- help speed up the process.
-
- Live Free or Die
- Dale Amon
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