From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 05:41:40 +0800
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Subject: Re: [Off-Topic]  "Curfews"
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At 12:03 AM 6/9/96 +0000, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>On  8 Jun 96 at 12:40, jim bell wrote:

>> As you can see, this is one of the big difficulties that people can
>> have understanding AP:  Since it changes just about everything about
>> how a society works, you can't analyze it "easily" using your
>> built-up knowledge of societies.
>
>Actually, it makes one realize that society and the "collective" is 
>nothing, that the basic building block is the individual.  If you 
>analyse the motivation of the individual, AP is not difficult to 
>understand.

It is, however, hard to separate out all the familiar assumptions we make 
about the world based on the current way of doing things.


>
>> As I've said so many times before, AP is like a political Rorschach
>> test:  Your reaction to it is strongly related to your political
>> philosophy.  That's part of the magic.
>
>Please stay out of magic.  The actual politician are enough into it.

Well, I was speaking hyperbolically.  (hyperbole.)


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com