From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 11:13:45 MDT
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:10:58AM -0700, Damien Sullivan wrote:
>
> Time for a rant I've wanted to get off:
> Not having been able to actually visit the place, I still have this notion
> that the Netherlands are the most consistently extropian place on the planet,
> at least in the senses I care about.
I agree, there is something deeply extropian about the place. OK, I have
just been there briefly a few times, but I liked what I saw both on the
ground and from my plane window. The whole land is a beautiful artifact.
I think the location is important too, you get influences from all
directions (and occasionally invasions) and this promotes trade and
tolerance. A bit like Venice, another place that seems to embody human
aspiration and never giving up against the clay.
The mathematically precise cathedral paintings of Pieter Saenreedam are
a must see at the Rijksmuseum (who cares for Rembrandt? :-)
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