To: cypherpunks@toad.com S >Regardless of how cypherpunks feel about this issue, E.D. is one S >of the most powerful memes making its way thru current society, and S >we have to deal with it. S > S >Nick Szabo szabo@netcom.com By ignoring it like all other forms of "others" government (tyranny). How anyone can think that more efficiently allowing others to rule them (whether one man or many) is a good idea is beyond me. Tyrrany is tyrrany is tyranny. Maybe with ED we'll be benefitted by the fact that the government itself which is carrying out the orders of the populace will be so busy with system volitility that it won't have time to do much real harm. Duncan Frissell (Net Prime - 01000001st Fiberborne) "A Machine Age army can no more defeat an Information Age army than a Muscle Age army can defeat a Machine Age army." Join in the fun as Slick Willie and the other spearcarriers of the New World Order charge the machine guns of the Info Army. Cyberspace Wants You. Join the 01000001st Fiberborne - recruiting depot open at this address. Phase One guerilla operations have alredy begun... --- WinQwk 2.0b#0