From: Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:50:36 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)
In-Reply-To: <199603110110.CAA05830@utopia.hacktic.nl>
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> What the compromises have to do with are that one lives in
> a society with rules, mores, laws.  One of those touch-shit
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Interesting parapraxis.

> facts of life.  You can do what you want, but when it involves
> other people, restrictions come in.  You deal with them,
> whether you are an artist, programmer, politician, goverment
> wonk, or whatever.
> 
> It has nothing to do with selling out or losing integrity.
> If you want food and shelter and you're not living in the
> woods, then you have to play by everyone else's rules if you
> don't have the power to make your own rules.
> 
> Was it Thoreau who said "Consistency is the hobgoblin of
> simpletons"?

Thoreau was the guy who went to jail rather than pay his taxes when he 
felt the government was using the money for immoral purposes.