Re:Here goes Katz again
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Yes, but you haven't actually reengineered the past, only one view of it; all you have is a stylized perception. The people still lived and the events still occurred. Party line revisionism, despite it's machinations, is not able to circumvent linear causality.
The irony of this is not lost one me though--the same ideological gang that thinks it can engineer the past is the same one that thinks it can do the same to your's and mine future.
There is no "Bridge to the 21st Century" except the one they have cobbled together in their propaganda machines. The reality are the many worn footpaths of the dreamers, schemers, entrepreneurs and just plain hard workin' folk have made leading to the future.
Beware the technocrat--Don't believe the hype.
Re:Here goes Katz again
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Too bad it's so ideologically stilted to be laughably irrelevent.
I think Jon's been reading too much of the good judge's findings; the real world is not quite so static. The idea that one source could control the flow of information today is equally laughable. You don't get more customers by limiting their options, unless of course, that's exactly what they want.
There are too many alternative and competing sources of information for this to be a credible theory. Slashdot is a perfect example of an alternative source and is only one of dozens that I utilize daily to get my info, on and off the Net. There is nothing that promises that this will be successful or lasting. Each party could tire of one another soon enough and this will only be so much wasted energy.
You can engineer the future no more so than you can the past.
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The irony of this is not lost one me though--the same ideological gang that thinks it can engineer the past is the same one that thinks it can do the same to your's and mine future.
There is no "Bridge to the 21st Century" except the one they have cobbled together in their propaganda machines. The reality are the many worn footpaths of the dreamers, schemers, entrepreneurs and just plain hard workin' folk have made leading to the future.
Beware the technocrat--Don't believe the hype.
I think Jon's been reading too much of the good judge's findings; the real world is not quite so static. The idea that one source could control the flow of information today is equally laughable. You don't get more customers by limiting their options, unless of course, that's exactly what they want.
There are too many alternative and competing sources of information for this to be a credible theory. Slashdot is a perfect example of an alternative source and is only one of dozens that I utilize daily to get my info, on and off the Net. There is nothing that promises that this will be successful or lasting. Each party could tire of one another soon enough and this will only be so much wasted energy.
You can engineer the future no more so than you can the past.