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From: Timothy Dang <tdang@U.Arizona.EDU>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:05:31 -0700 (MST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> I bristle at the term "consumer-oriented service". I'm creating shared
> worlds with some like-minded people for the amusment of many other
> like-minded people. The degree to which we are like-minded could
> be expressed in a graph of our social sphere. Those furthest points
> from myself and the majority form the boundaries of our voluntary
> association. Outside those boundaries lay the dispossessed[*].
>
> [*] Thanks Brian(?) for adding that word to the lingo of Mud-Dev.
> I love it. Has anyone read LeGuinn's 'The Dispossessed'?
It's one of my favorite books, and certainly my favorite fictional
depiction of anarchy. To try to make it on-topic, it's worth noting that
many of LeGuin's books, while classified as sci-fi or fantasy, really are
sorta speculative anthropology, and worth reading for those who think
about social design.
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Timothy O'Neill Dang / Cretog8
520-321-4015
One monkey don't stop no show.
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