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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 06:17:32 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
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- References: <td1k85o@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1g5p0cINNjf4@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec10.005941.20826@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec10.005941.20826@bcrka451.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- >In article <1g5p0cINNjf4@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >>
- >>Right. It may surprise you, but some of us happen to share that
- >>philosophy. More succinctly stated: "Nothing is worth more than
- >>what someone is willing to pay for it."
- >
- >If a thing is worth what someone is willing to pay, why must the
- >"someone" exclude governments?
- >
- >The ruling class in our democracies is (in theory, anyway) the people,
- >represented by their elected governments.
-
- Popularity does not, in my book anyway, make morality.
-
- If fifty-one percent of the population of Canada decided that
- anyone with a post-consonant 'h' in their name should be sent
- to a concentration camp, would you go?
-
- (This may seem silly and far-fetched, but an equivalent body of
- good ol' Americans appears to have decided the same in my case.
- Fortunately, they will have to catch me first.)
-
- If your ruling majority thinks a piece of art is worth buying,
- let them buy it. Must they force everyone else to buy it, too?
-
- c
- paranoia, paranoia, lah-da-da-dee-da
-