Re: A LITTLE HELP + Greeks
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-- Quote:
"The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence."
- Norbert Weiner, "God and Golem, Inc.," 1964.-- Notes:
1) Weiner coined the word "cybernetics" in 1948 from the greek "kubernetes" which inspired the term behind the action of browsing the internet, which is patent in words like "Explorer" or "Navigator". I'm posting this just in case people still mind about the ethics of it all.
2) the Greeks are the little people that Kingjulien the Writer, referenced as irrelevant the other day, but of which he obviously knows little about. Let's not to mention that he lives in a country that was established upon their insignificant culture.
3) it's pretty sad people do not research before posting opinion. it really sucks for those who do know or care.
As you were.
- mrdobolina0
so what's this all about then?
- ********0
just about what i've posted. some bits and ends. nothing more.
- kingjulien0
Dear Witt,
I've enjoyed several conversations on here with you, one about the Russian film, The Return - one of my favorite films ever, so I don't understand where you get off calling me out in your ridiculously obscure, borderline incoherant post. For the record, the thread that you are referring to, was not only one in jest (we're still allowed to be playful in the pvn, right?) but it also credited the Greeks with creating the backbone of both Western Civilization and also democracy itself. How is that referring to them as irrelevant, considering the importance of each?
With that said, in your third point, you criticize people who post opinions before doing any research, which is hilarious, considering you've just done the very same thing. Irony is still a major component of post-modernism, but not in the way you used it, which is hypocritical at best.
In conclusion, please fuck off.
- lvl_130
i'll chalk that up to "WRONG THREAD KJ!"
: )
- kingjulien0
p.s. Witt, you're the guy who has posted three "Good-bye Newstoday" threads in the past, where you criticized this place for not living up to your expectations, and babbled on about how you couldn't in good conscience participate here anymore "because there's not enough intersection between design and literature." Not only are these sorts of posts funny (because deep down, if you're not gonna be around anymore, why tell anyone? I mean nobody gives a fuck anyway.) but the really amusing thing ist time and time again you've returned.
I recommend a good anti-depressant, or upping the dosage on the one you're on, to alleviate this sort of cuntishness. With that said, if you have a problem with me personally in the future, why not send a little email and try and be reasonable, rather than this weak ass shit.
- lvl_130
i'll chalk that up to "WRONG THREAD lvl_13!"
: )
lvl_13
(Aug 24 06, 20:28)
- kingjulien0
lol
- version30
"the internet shouldn't be taken so personally"
*pats those in the on the butt... "good game"