>From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>CC: extropians@extropy.com, cscs530-01@yahoogroups.com,
>transhuman@logrus.org
>Subject: Re:
>In the long run, it does. Sure, there will be setbacks, but a closed
>society is self-defeating: even if it wins one war, its closedness
>will cause it to fall even further behind and lose the power to
>maintain itself. It will be beseiged by rebellion from within.
The western democracies in Europe are more closed than America. I don't see
them crumbling. In fact, many have made a good case that they are better off
than we are. Their living standards are higher....
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