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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:16:50 EDT
Subject: Some great observations by John DeRivas and Mark Plus

Hello, Cryoneters..
 
I just wanted to observe that there are some sound and almost profound  
comments today from John DeRivas...and even Mark Plus.
 
David S. also provides his background as a PhD in psych...
 
This background explains how someone as clearly educated and intelligent as  
DS is... can make the astonishingly arrogant and misguided observations he  
does.  
 
Sorry David...I don't want to get in a "shooting war" with you.
 
And I was glad someone had the common sense to point out what a disaster  e
very experiment in state socialism has been.  
 
With the exception of Cuba, of course.  It is such a workers paradise  that 
people from south Florida are trying to get to Cuba in homemade  rafts...  Oh, 
wait!  I got it wrong...What?  They are trying to  LEAVE Cuba in homemade 
rafts?!
 
Maybe taking away individual freedoms in the name of the "People" is NOT a  
good idea...or a long term viable economic and political  system.  
 
It is almost quaint to find "academics and intellectuals" who still  embrace 
the propaganda of the communist state.  Sorry if I misread your  observations, 
David.  I have no doubt you are a wonderful and talented  fellow.  But the 
lack of equivocation or subtle nuancing in your  pronouncements makes me 
question their 
"Truthiness."  (a good Steven  Colbert word.)
 
Here ends my short foray into off topic political/economic theory on  Cryonet.
 
And, by the way, David, the "meme" concept and verbiage is a useful  

tool...and is a "meme" widely adopted among the forward thinking people in the

cryonics community.  Plus, it is credited to Richard Dawkins, a hero to  many of
us, 
who is probably the foremost explainer and defender of the  foundational 
ideas of Darwinian evolution of our age.   
 
So, in the immortal words of Rodney King, "Can't we all just get  along?"  
 
Rudi Hoffman
 
 
 
 


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