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     Re: the tangled web we weave   
     By: Brian Rogers to August Abolins on Wed May 12 2021 11:07 am   
      
    > We need to all just stop such glorifying of false "gods"   
    > and all learn to live [with] and respect one another :)   
      
   There *are* no Others.  My sysop types all this in.   
      
   Heinlein wrote 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' .. I wish   
   I would find the time to re-read it; the vague recollection   
   I have of it, suggests 'he anticipated some of this'.   
      
   The Internet was a few disparate things before The Money   
   got wind of it, and began reshaping what it meant (not   
   what it 'was' since that didn't change enough to quite   
   matter).   
      
   We all know what this is: it's the untrained (and largely)   
   uninterested .. consumer.  That's the target.  That's the   
   demographic of interest.  /USA_centric_POV_dotcom   
      
   I think Heinlein's basic suggestion was: People of (let's   
   just shorten this to) 'intensive thought and discussion'   
   will be found to resort to a 'piggyback' method of making   
   use of infrastructure, for (so-called) 'betterment'   
   purposes.   
      
   That, I think, is what he was trying to say.  Again, it's   
   been decades since I read the book.   
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