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   Message 437 of 2,235   
   Omixochitl to Sourcerer   
   Re: Global Politics Quiz   
   05 Nov 03 23:26:30   
   
   From: Omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   Sourcerer  wrote in   
   news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0311050722120.11978-100000@inanna.eanna.net:   
      
   > Then there's expectations that don't pan out. "The system", we   
   > eventually learn, is big and powerful, so much so that individuals or   
   > even large groups cannot affect it. From Agincourt to Vietnam that was   
   > not true. The common folk had the same scale of weaponry (not just arms,   
   > but media, such as printing presses etc) as "the system" had, an   
   > equalizer, which could be wielded effectively to change things.   
   >   
   > One thing cyberpunk can do is keep up with the technology and look for   
   > flaws in "the system" that might lead to the creation of equalizers, I   
   > don't think such equalizers will be arms when they arrive on the scene   
   > (and they will arrive because "the system" is full of contradictions and   
   > paradoxes and we are a species of inquisitive monkeys. My interest is in   
   > delineating those contradictions).   
      
   Trouble is, it's not "the system."  It's the systemS.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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