Re: A Danger of Apparent Complicity? (was Tranquility Bay)

From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 22:49:23 MDT

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    Okay, you've dragged me back out. :)

    On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 08:11 PM, Lee Corbin wrote:
    > But he has one worry. He was reading the "Tranquility Bay"
    > thread (okay, I'm making some of this up) on the Extropians
    > mail list, and was mightily impressed by Randall's point
    > concerning that if you submit to authority for any period
    > of time, you can indeed lose your will to resist. You
    > become brainwashed. You find that pretending to "go
    > along" metamorphoses into the reality.

    It isn't the pretending to which I was objecting. The
    thought experiment you present doesn't have the features
    which, in my opinion, constitute "brainwashing" in the
    sense that Tranquility Bay performs it.

    > The question is, how accurate is his worry that by "playing
    > along" with the system for two more years, he will compromise
    > his own resistance?

    Not very accurate, in my opinion.

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    Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com>
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