Happy Independence Day

[Walsingham]

You know Calax, we have been trading posts for a few years now. I've got a pretty good idea where you stand on most issues and I would not take something you posted and construe it into something I know you would not say yourself. Perhaps it would be fair to return that courtesy?

 

Wals, do you get what I'm saying here? Or do I need to call you out too? I'm just posting an email thats been floating around for a few years now. I did not write it myself, I do not stand by it's contents 100% but I do think it is a pretty good read. You have all read enough f my writing to know what I think and vice versa.

 

I didn't make it clear enough that I was attacking the email, mate. Apologies.

 

I just think that in your personal drive to find allies who are opposed to the current government you've hitched yourself to religious conservatives who are really socialists by another name. Because they believe that an 'enlightened' elite should be engineering people 'better'. That either has to come from government or Saudi/Iranian/Bolshevik 'committees' dispensing almost arbitrary rulings. Probably from government in an era where everythig is so complex and inter-related. For example, how is a local committe going to understand or act on a database query technique designed for shoe-shops but exploited to anonymise internet porn?

 

IMO in such a huge melee the only 'moral' solution is to adopt a tight circle of friends and working associates who adhere to a code. Society is more or less monkey level from here on in. And maybe that's not such a bad thing considering most people are pretty simple and monkeyish. But then I worry that this sounds far too much like the philosophy of the Chinese Triads.