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SilverScooter · 10-26-2004, 09:07 AM

yeah... this is a lot like communism.

in this i mean that it looks like an incredibly sound idea on paper, but its way to idealistic and "1984ish" to actually hold water. in the same sense, we can eliminate the flu or AIDS by just not coming in contact with people who have said diseases/infections. the truth of the matter is, when it comes to these idealistic simplifications, they're all so oversimplified that they can't exist in the real world which, contrary to some belief, is not as simple as we make it out to be.

bottom line: there is always going to be some complexity, some person, who ruins it for everyone that actually tries to make the system work. this leads to a great deal of disillusion within the rest of the system and the subsequent embalming of said complexity, kind of like stalin. then we all go back to what works for other people who don't have STDs: democracy, i mean, condoms...

10-26-2004, 09:07 AM	#6 (permalink)
SilverScooter Upright	yeah... this is a lot like communism. in this i mean that it looks like an incredibly sound idea on paper, but its way to idealistic and "1984ish" to actually hold water. in the same sense, we can eliminate the flu or AIDS by just not coming in contact with people who have said diseases/infections. the truth of the matter is, when it comes to these idealistic simplifications, they're all so oversimplified that they can't exist in the real world which, contrary to some belief, is not as simple as we make it out to be. bottom line: there is always going to be some complexity, some person, who ruins it for everyone that actually tries to make the system work. this leads to a great deal of disillusion within the rest of the system and the subsequent embalming of said complexity, kind of like stalin. then we all go back to what works for other people who don't have STDs: democracy, i mean, condoms... __________________ and that's the end of that chapter...