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| DATE | 2003-07-17 |
| FROM | Bob Butcher
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Rep
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--- "Inker, Evan" wrote:
>
> Glory Glory Hallelujah, Glory Glory Hallelujah
> Glory Glory Hallelujah, His Truth Keeps Matching On"
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Richardson
> [mailto:MRICHARDSON-at-abc.state.ny.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:29 AM
> To: Michael Richardson; 'Ruben I Safir';
> EInker-at-gam.com
> Cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> Subject: 7 points to consider about the Update on
> Handbook
>
>
> 7 Points to consider. Look for * followed by
> number.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ruben Safir [mailto:ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:14 PM
> > To: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> > Subject: [hangout] Update on Handbook
> >
> >
> >What is this document:
> >
> > This is the handbook for NYLXS Members. In this
> document new members
> > will find the basic outline of what NYLXS is, what
> the roll is for its
> > members, and the rights and responsibilites which
> members have in the
> > relationship to NYLXS and and the general Free
> Software community.
> >
> > If your reading this document, it means that
> you've taken an important
> > first step in your development as a good citizen
> of the Free Software
> > community and the world at large. It means that
> you've paid your NYLXS
> > dues, and have made a commitment to improving in a
> meaningful fashion
> > your future, and the future of others. Let me be
> the first person to
> > stand up, shake your hand, and welcome to to
> NYLXS. Your contribution
> > is apreciated.
> >
> > Our generation has been lucky enough to have been
> born at one of the
> > critical junctions in human history when the
> decisions we make today,
> > and the technology which we are developing will
> alter pernamently the
> > fabric of our reality as a society and a
> civilization. With the
> > explosive growth of digital information, we have
> in our grasp today the
> > ability break long standing barriers to individual
> and social progress
> > through the wide spread of inexpenssive
> information and
> > communications. Computer technology has lowered
> to barrier of entry
> > for nearly every individual on the planet to
> become a full participant
> > in the global economy and are responsible members
> of the world
> > community.
> > The very shape of human psycology and cultural
> reference is making a
> > massive shift do to the availablilty of
> inexpenssive digital
> > communications. This event has only taken place
> two other times in
> > human civilization. The first time mankind was on
> such a threshold was
> > with the invention of the written word. Prior to
> the invention of
> > writing, mankind existed as an undomesticated,
> wild species. Early
> > examples of prehistoric art and tools shows a
> fundementally different
> > species from the perspective of social fabric and
> individual thought.
> > Primitive cave art shares a free flow of form,
> without structure,
> > horizon lines or sufficticated organizations. The
> naturalistic styles
> > of these prehistoric civilizations, such as they
> represent a
> > civilization, are relatively devoid of abstract
> symbolism to the degree
> > of post writing civilization. In fact, writing
> itself was a great leap
> > in abstraction from pictorials and pictureglyphs
> of prehistoric man.
> >
> > After the invention of writing, the change in
> civilization was sudden,
> > and dramatic. It reflects a new human species
> where the accumulation
> > of knowledge and the ability to create and work in
> the abstraction of
> > written language allowed for the not only a
> completely different
> > fundemental thinking process for the human
> species, but also allowed
> > for organization of society along classes of power
> and wealth.
>
> *1. The above reads like the Weathermen's Manifesto.
>
>
> >There is no way to think about conquering your
> neighbor over the hill
> >if
> you
> > don't have the written word to record and coney
> accounts of their
> > assets and advantages, to communicate remotely
> with your allies and
> > enemies, and without a means to construct a
> governing administration
> > over a wide geographical area.
>
> *2. Incorrect look at the Zulu Nation, The Native
> American Nations. Before
> written history and records, Oral history and
> runners (messages) were how
> nations were governed.
>
>
> > Obviously, those with the ability and resources to
> become educated in
> > writing could standardize their belief systems and
> enforce those
> > beliefs on those without such means available to
> them.
> In fact, as
> > soon as the ability to write is developed, the
> monopolization of means
> > of writing immediately becomes the tool of power
> and wealth. After
> > nearly a 1000 years of revolution, which
> cumumlates and finally
> > stabilizes with the advent of the Greco-Roman
> empire in the West, and
> > the great Chinese Dynasties in the east.
> Civilization cursed along in
> > nuetral for about a 1000 more years until the next
> great revolution,
> > which this time democratized greately the
> distribution of information
> > and knowledge. This next great technological
> revolution is rise of the
> > printing press in the West. The advent of the
> printing press sets off
> > both the Western Renaissance, the Age of
> Exploration, and the 400 years
> > of bloodshed which we euphamistically call the
> Protestant Revolution,
> > which expressed itself as not only a struggle
> between the knowledge
> > rich Catholic Church against the developing middle
> classes of Europe,
> > and plays itself out in a broader sense in the
> entire colonial era
> > exploitation of native peoples world wide. If you
> think to brush off
> > the democratizing affect of inexpensive paper
> books, consider the
> > import that Southern American slave owners put on
> keep their negor
> > slaves illiterate.
> >
> > The advent of the printing press unleashed a whole
> new kind of human
> > being, and a new kind of civilization.
>
> > And today, we are facing a new revolution in
> information, one where Al
> > Greenberg sneezes on the stock echange at 2:00PM
> in NY and prices in
> > world markets fall in stock prices at 2:01PM, even
> in Hong Kong.
> >
> > Clarily the choices we make today will affect our
> civilization and our
> > species for hundreds, if not thousands of years
> into the future. How
> > will that world look, and how bloody will the the
> transition for
> > civilization be? This is the questions NYLXS is
> concerned
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