From: alias.remove@netserver.org   
      
   >>>I for one am wondering why it fucking matters what cyberpunk is or isn't   
   >>>... really. Why does it have to be defined to rigidly?   
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   >>   
   >> definitions create reality.   
   >   
   > the reality doesn't exist until defined???   
      
   not in a manner useable by most people.   
      
   >   
   >   . . . and what is it about humans that drives them to reach an agreed   
   > upon consensus as to what is real, what is not, and what shape that   
   > reality is perceived to take??? (and then beat each other up until the   
   > chosen "consensus" is agreed upon by all)   
      
   IMO they are aware on some level that the consencus shapes the world we   
   all percieve and that the forming of such definitions is a critical   
   juncture..   
      
   u can alter a thing by simply altering peoples means of interaction with   
   it.. if i convince u to believe in a new name, in a very real way, i   
   have changed the named thing.   
      
   ..   
      
   i thought we already had this out in another thread?   
      
   ..   
   alias   
      
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