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Interview with Bruce Sterling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

kpost writes "Reason magazine has an interview with Bruce Sterling." Fairly lengthy and entertaining interview for you bookworms out there. Covers a lot of different subjects.

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  1. No and Yes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Aren't republicans supposed to be the "ra ra personal freedom" party, and democrats the "Why is nobody thinking of the children!!!" party?

    Stereotypically, Reps are "in favor of economic freedom" and Dems are "in favor of personal freedom."

    The fact is, both parties are opposed to both personal & economic freedom.

    It just seems like you all simply jump to attack whatever position the opposing party takes, even if your own ideology agrees with it.

    Bingo. If GWB changed to the Dems on Jan 21, 2001, yet otherwise did everything else exactly the same as he done, the "Bush haters" would consider him to be one of the top two Presidents in US history.

    This is what reaally turns me off with these guys. Their only beef with him is that he has an "R" after his name. They cannot come up with anything substantive, because in order to do so, they would have to repudiate socialism.

    One may say, "What about the war in Iraq?" The same people who are "anti-war" today didn't have a problem with war vs. Iraq in 1998 when someone on their team was waging it.