In a message dated 8/25/00 11:07:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
zero_powers@hotmail.com writes:
> >Spike, I'd like to think that this is automatically true, but I don't think
> >it is. Small rural communities were very transparent in the past, and
they
> >weren't necessarily characterized by high levels of tolerance. Check out
> >"The Crucible"
>
> Small rural communities differ from a transparent world in one huge way.
> People who live in small rural communities tend to have a common culture.
> They go to the same churches, belong to the same organizations and because
> the community is small, each member tends to have a much greater influence
> on his friends and neighbors than he would have living in, say, New York
> City. Whereas in a ubiquitous transparent society, the culture would be
an
> amalgam of many disparate cultures (again like you have in New York) and
> since no one culture will hold sway over any other, tolerance will be the
> natural result, as you have (for the most part) in New York.
This would be true in the Kabul of the Taliban? I don't think so . . .I
think you better have the values of tolerance in place before you get your
ubiquitous surveillance.
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