Date sent: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 23:39:21 -0500 From: Darin Sunley <rsunley@escape.ca> To: extropians@extropy.com Subject: Re: META: Not another flamewar (BUT RE: a bit of GUNS & a bit of (meta?) rhetoric Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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> "Joe E. Dees" wrote:
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> > Sparta was the prototypically fascist society. People were a lot
> > less free in Sparta than in Athens, or here.
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> Uhhh, better then 90% of the population of Athens were slaves. Sans technology, enlightenment
> comes at a heavy price. (Catch 22?)
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The citizens of Athens (the non-slaves) were less constrained by
their society than were the citizens of Athens, which also had a
great many slaves.
> Darin Sunley
> rsunley@escape.ca
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