Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 4 Nov 2024 18:25:33 GMT Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> <1190130485.752353610.782141.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <38b4c4eb-2ab5-df94-0baa-c2d7fcdda60d@example.net> <3091c6e2-ec4b-a505-a256-0fccf2c07135@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net PfzzhpoEZmZantBIQqvOAAP5SXL1y3vbogbIqaQWahXRWLTXQu Cancel-Lock: sha1:1kbV7ojfb6WPXETg/Qdm4QT3z3I= sha256:UjGctTC07UOiXpw9O2zhP7cVhVyJkN6aY3w53PwsMaA= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228574 comp.os.linux.misc:60530 On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 15:48:13 +0100, D wrote: > My bet is more on Brave New World in the form os positive psychology and > "nudging"-research when it comes to the new religion of "science" in the > west and how the government can "nudge" the common man to be cute and > friendly. If anything government should be promoting the uncommon man but I'm not looking for that any time soon. Governments are comfortable with the mediocre and below.