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From: Benjamin Ketcham 
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Subject: Re: yeah

Be realistic.  There is zero chance of living a happy life divorced
from technology once you've come this far, even if your personal ideals
would imply that you should (mine don't).  Technology is the next step
in evolution.  Embrace it as the new art and culture that it is (new
in the broad sense, covering a few thousand or hundreds of thousands of
years).  There is no innate reason why technology should be evil or
destructive of lives or resources.  Those, like George Bush et al, who
claim that there is a necessary tradeoff between `progress' and the
environment miss the whole point.  But so do those who espouse the
notion of somehow turning back the clock, closing Pandora's box, even
on a very local scale.  Technology is here to stay and grow, and it is
our child.  Let us live up to our responsibilities as parents and raise
the child to be moral, considerate, caring, and productive.

--ben

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