Re: Many selves (was Diaries (was: Re: The Pause that Refreshes))

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 15:25:59 MDT


It appears as if <hal@finney.org> wrote:

|> I was once a Democrat.
|
|There's a somewhat facetious saying: if a young man is not a liberal,
|he doesn't have a heart; if an old man is not a conservative, he doesn't
|have a brain. This may correspond to Robin's suggestion that people
|naturally change over the years for biological reasons and not, as it
|seems, that they are learning what suits them best.

Somebody has said that you can go from being a radical, over moderate
and conservative, to become a reactionary, without changing a single
opinion in your entire life.

Anyways, some people actually start as reactionary ...uhm.. conservative
and move the other way to become some kind of anarchists at the end.
Would they have a different kind of DNA or something?



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