From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 18:14:55 +0800
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Re: [Noise] Hettinga Sees Colors...
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At 01:20 PM 7/22/96 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>Anyway, I was standing there at the monument to the British war dead ;-),
>and said to the kids (ages 15, 13, and 11), "Guys, right here, on this
>spot," (they looked down) " is were America [sic] started. If you could
>imagine the ground here painted red, white and blue, and then the colors
>radiating out from here in all directions", (they looked around) "from the
>Atlantic to the Pacific, to Alaska and Hawaii, and bunch of islands in both
>oceans. Oh, yeah. Even the Moon." Then they looked up.


                   By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
                        Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
                   Here once the embattled farmer's stood,
                        And fired the shot heard round the world.

See also: http://www.inc.net/~fhs/littour/bridge.html

Relevant to cypherpunks because to steal from Nelson Thall of some Marshall
McLuhan Institute in the latest Wired:  "Ultimately, the power of the
Internet is that it makes you think like a North American.  It allows the
entire world to think and write like North Americans.  This is the agenda of
the Internet.  It goes along with NAFTA."

An *why* is it vital that the world become like 'North Americans' (or, as we
non-Canadians would say 'Americans')?  See my follow-up message.

DCF