| "Who
were they, what social groups did they come from, what
kind of students and people were they? How and why did
they change so much in less than a year? Why did neither
I nor a majority of my fellow students succumb to this
phenomenon and process? Many such questions fluttered
through our heads then. (...) They gave the impression
of possessing some secret knowledge."
Andrew M. Lobaczewski, ponerologist,
1984.
"Let's
be simple and bluntly honest about it, left or right,
conservative or liberal, broadcast politics are dumb,
dumb, dumb"
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales, the wikipedia
creator, 2006
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"
R: That's nice Jeff, so for
you intelligenge is far closer to the individual than
of mass social sistems, and universal sufrage, you told
me onece, is equiparable to an act of dumbness.
J: Oh! come on Rick, you know is probably wrong to say
it this way. What I usually say is that I am quite sure
that if we substitute parlamentary activity with an
artificial system smart-as-a-rat no one will notice
a diference.
As if we substitute a general
election with a simulator cleaver-as-a-medusa, or the
results of any national sport leaguege with a robot
smart-as-a-beattle. I don't care about persons rick,
thats your bussines. Mine is pounds of neo-cortex (laughts).
No dumbness but simplicity.
R: Excuse my texan rudeness, and my excess of suspicion:
no doubt in the deeps you are a kind of neo-cortical
social democrat (laughts) despite Iou have the wealth
of a tyrant (more laughts). All right, next shoot: (...)"
Rick Roderick interview with Jeff
Hawkins*
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