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>From h430796 Tue Feb 20 09:03:18 +0100 1996 remote from stud.u-szeged.hu To: [email protected] Subject: Forwarded answer to J.P.Barlow (from Darkeye@EastEdge) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:03:18 +0100 From: Molnar Daniel <[email protected]> Received: from stud.u-szeged.hu by stud.u-szeged.hu; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:03 MET Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1841 A half milleneum ago three ships ventured from Spain to what they thought was India. They did not know any of the people there, nor their culture or way of thinking. They weren't even in India. And they did not care. Their one and only aim was: conquer and spread there own ideas & culture & religion. Their meme-complexes had a simple rule: infect the other or destroy it. And this is what they did & they succeeded. Amen. Some centuries later there were people in the eastern side of North America. And there were other poeple to the West. They did not know each other too well, and they didn't really care. One thing the guys on the east did though: conquer the west. This time it was more brutal: there was no excuse, only the dead indians were good indians. This simple rule they used, and they succeeded. Amen. Some more centuries later, grandson of the ones mentioned above venture to a territory called cyberspace. They don't really know it, but they don't really care. They just want to infect this land with their rules. First, they try the easy way with some laws & regulations. If this doesn't work out, there comes the hard way. (After all, these are the guys who extinguished all the Inca, conquered the Indians, won the Kuwait war and who are 'peacekeeping' in ex-Yugoslavia.) And they will succeed, won't they? Amen. And why? Simple: the ones who succeeded in the past had the real-world power. And on this new battlefield which side has the guns? 'Cause I don't have any... [email protected] ***btw visit us, cos we have moved: new url is http://edge.stud.u-szeged.hu w/ best reg. daniel molnar aka cj b2men snail mail is H-6701 Szeged Hungary Europe POBox 2443. fax me at +36-62-421-253 (c/o Radio 88 FM 100.2) e-mail me at [email protected] url is http://edge.stud.u-szeged.hu/~b2men/home.html -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: [email protected] and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/nettime/ contact: [email protected]