Re: Is the Internet dangerous to a political movement?

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 04:00:54 MDT


On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> Since when is there sufficient time that this sort of "patience", "for
> decades" is actually beneficial? Do we have any other viable
> alternatives?

We don't have good control over processes occuring in other people's
heads. We can only offer metamethod grafts to those so willing, but you
might find that metamethods are easily rejected, too.

Tricking people into wanting to learn is hard. It requires a remodelling
of the society on all scale, starting with school and ending at the value
set.



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