roundtable: Re: Content is the cargo of truth

roundtable: Re: Content is the cargo of truth

Re: Content is the cargo of truth

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:40:09 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:40:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Content is the cargo of truth
In-Reply-To: <v02110141ab94407465ef@[193.120.234.103]>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950321172447.9514B-100000@access3.digex.net>


> At 9:41 PM 3/20/95, Matt York wrote:
> >In a democracy the marketplace for ideas dictates "who is heard saying
> >what". In a socialist system, the government takes money from its
> >citizens to make sure the "right people are heard saying what they think
> >should be". In a communist system the government starts out itself
> >"being the right people to be heard" but then degenerates into
> >"manufacturing who is heard and it is them". Then we have little red
> >books and rewritten history.

....
> 
> Matt's statement above is simply a cheap shot aimed at confusing 
> discussion about what regulatory framework is approrpriate for the 
> market mechanisms to operate within, and which public intiatives should 
> be part of the mix. He's saying: "do it my way or you're a pinko."


  He is saying less than that, its part of a scheme to piggy back off 
of the great anti-comunist religion of the US that fed the war machine 
for several decades but finally ended when the "enemy" turned up dead 
and we turned up near bankrupt.  Now the "conservative" Newtonian fellow
travellers have hit upon the idea of rehashing the same anti-comunist
religion with a twist:: the e enemy is us--or anyone who disagrees with
the lunatics espousing the new anti-comunis.  What makes this scheme
troubling is the fact that it is designed to feed on the automatic
emotional response system of Americans. 

  But it may backfire, as early reports are showing, Newtonian politics 
has little factual foundation and people are getting smarter.  They may 
just run the little wana-be dictator out of town on a rail.  Now 
wouldn't that be a shame!

  Vigdor Schreibman
  <fins@access.digex.net>

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