From: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 22:04:49 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: The Illusion of Freedom
Message-ID: <199711181358.HAA05198@dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com>
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Nerthus wrote:
>>It makes nice rhetoric, but this is simply not true, you know.  Most
>>people correctly evaluate that you have no chance for freedom at all
>>if you commit suicide, whereas a slave *does* have a chance.
>
>Assuming he recognizes that he *is* a slave.  Most people are
>oblivious to this fact.

>>(By "irrational" here I am referring to behaviour clearly contrary
>>to your own survival.)
>
>'Tis true.  War is a perfect example of what happens when too many
>people act irrationally.
>
>I'm interested in avoiding war without becoming a slave in the
>process.  Anyone else?

Sounds like a good deal.

However, most people who engage in war are not in any sense free and
the single most apparent feature of life in a military organization is
the elimination of freedom and privacy.

It is most often the case that in order to wage war, one must first
become enslaved.

Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm

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