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Re: [Off-Topic] "Curfews"
At 12:03 AM 6/9/96 +0000, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>On 8 Jun 96 at 12:40, jim bell wrote:
>> As you can see, this is one of the big difficulties that people can
>> have understanding AP: Since it changes just about everything about
>> how a society works, you can't analyze it "easily" using your
>> built-up knowledge of societies.
>
>Actually, it makes one realize that society and the "collective" is
>nothing, that the basic building block is the individual. If you
>analyse the motivation of the individual, AP is not difficult to
>understand.
It is, however, hard to separate out all the familiar assumptions we make
about the world based on the current way of doing things.
>
>> As I've said so many times before, AP is like a political Rorschach
>> test: Your reaction to it is strongly related to your political
>> philosophy. That's part of the magic.
>
>Please stay out of magic. The actual politician are enough into it.
Well, I was speaking hyperbolically. (hyperbole.)
Jim Bell
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