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On 12/07/01 08:31, Price, Ilfryn said this-
>> Virtually everyone on this list
>> appears to occupy
>> this space- whether as lay contributors or people who've put
>> themselves into
>> print on such issues like yourself. I wonder why....
>
>A nice and I presume rhetorical question.
The desire for consilience among the various sciences and disciplines,
social, technical, and artistic, is a dangerous want. It's dangerous to
the heirarchy. It's dangerous to the status quo. It's dangerous to tribal
prestige.
It's dangerous because it also needs full freedom of disclosure, and it
educates everyone about everything.
The internet, however, is such a strong environment for it, that it just
might survive.
And it's also dangerously apt to remain unfocused because it needs
vision, and people with overarching vision are few, if not non-existent,
these days, rare as they were ever.
- Wade
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