From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 94 12:42:26 PDT
To: jamiel@sybase.com (Jamie Lawrence)
Subject: Re: What motivates crypto-folk?
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Jamie Lawrence wrote:

> Depends on what you call ultra-left. You have a very serious socialist
> here... I don't advertise it much becuase too many libertarian
> types spam me trying to tell me why I'm wrong. Maybe I am the only
> one that gets tired of those arguments...

I'm also tired of them, and I don't spam folks who are liberals or
leftists. I've generally found that people's political views are
formed when they are of college age, and rarely change significantly
after that. Not sure why this is so, but I think it is.

> My own personal opinion is that waiting for governments to collapse
> due to crypto and tech is gonna have you waiting a long, long time.
> I prefer doing something with the tools at hand to dreaming. And the

Just to be clear about this, in no way, shape or form am I just
"waiting for governments to collapse."

I'll make the charitable assumption that "I prefer doing something with
the tools at hand to dreaming" is not an insinuation that we
libertarians or crypto anarchists are idle dreamers.


> Jamie "Is a Mayist Like a Janist?" Lawrence

The Jains eschew eating living things, while the Mayists *only* eat
freshly-killed meat. But you knew that.


--Klaus! von Future Prime


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