"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Steve Nichols wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:23:27 -0400
> > > From: "Stephan Vladimir Bugaj" <stephan@bugaj.com>
> > > Subject: RE: Posthuman Politics
> > >
> > > majority of an entire country's population. Strategies that require a
> > > majority of a population to participate have been known to succeed. The
> > > American Revolution succeeded. Martin Luther King succeeded. But
> > > anything on that massive a scale takes billions of dollars, a core group
> > > of activists willing to devote their entire lives to the problem, and even
> > > then it still takes a generation to set up the initial conditions if they
> > > haven't been set up already.
>
Marthin Luther King, Gandhi, American Revolution - none of them
tool billions of dollars. None of them even necessarily had a
majority although they influenced a majority. The set up is
shorter when the initial conditions are not be set up but are
the given of the day. Today the world is a smaller place and
what took a generation can largely, in theory, occur in much
less time now.
- samantha
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