Re: What motivates crypto-folk?

[jamiel@sybase.com (Jamie Lawrence)]

At 12:38 PM 07/01/94 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:

>I'm also tired of them, and I don't spam folks who are liberals or
>leftists. I've generally found that people's political views are
>formed when they are of college age, and rarely change significantly
>after that. Not sure why this is so, but I think it is.

So that makes 2 things we agree on... :)

And I think that you are right about college. Mine have taken minor
changes (maybe that's because I haven't ever finished school), like
on crypto for instance (I admit it... used to lean to the anti-side),
but school choice does have greater significance than I think a lot
of people give it credit for.

>Just to be clear about this, in no way, shape or form am I just
>"waiting for governments to collapse."

I wasn't refering to you specifically, Tim. The folk on this
list for (well, the most part) are a lot more active than the
population at large (pat, pat). When I wrote that I was thinking
of this little enclave of folks that used to frequent several lists
that I was on and post enourmous tirades about how then the government
shriveled up and died of it own accord everything was gonna be
great and so on. Gimme a busy anarchist to an couch potato anything
any day...

>I'll make the charitable assumption that "I prefer doing something with
>the tools at hand to dreaming" is not an insinuation that we
>libertarians or crypto anarchists are idle dreamers.

As above, I should have been more careful about the insinuation.
Tim, Didn't know you did charity. ;)

>The Jains eschew eating living things, while the Mayists *only* eat
>freshly-killed meat. But you knew that.

Wow, that makes three things...

>--Klaus! von Future Prime


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Jamie Lawrence                                  <jamiel@sybase.com>