Offtopic - Re: [Gllug] Geforce2

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

<gllug at codex.net> wrote:

> in order to design a new society, i think you have to throw away
> everything you already know, apart from a afew core idioms.  like,
life
> is precious.

If you throw away everything you already know, you're almost certain to
make the same mistakes again, as well as probably coming up with a few
new ones. In addition, you've got to remember that your design
ultimately has to work with people milling around in it...

One of the best courses I did at Uni looked at attempts to envisage and
build Utopias (top course - it's a grand moment when a history student
gets told to go away and read some science fiction... ;-). Every real
life attempt to build a perfect society (and there have been hundreds of
them) has foundered to some extent and that was largely, I believe, down
to the fact that they only had people to populate them....

> i'd be happier if my taxes went towards things i thought more
important.
> it did annoy me, that my tax moola dropped a nipple on greenwich,
when
> there's homeless people living in london.

OTOH, that's a thought I'd concur with absolutely.... very poetically
expressed ;-)

Wulf



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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