From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 22:49:23 MDT
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.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "Not only can money buy happiness, it isn't even particularly expensive any more." -- Spike Jones
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