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From: mark@uf-csv.UUCP (mark fishman [fac])
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Subject: Re: Re: Experts:Are they all Milos?
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Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 16:22:34 EST
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>> To the bug that will probably inherit the Earth:  *morituri te salutant*
>> 
>> Milo,
>>
>>      I have at length been persuaded by your argument.  Not by its
>> substance, but by the fact that a human being was able to utter it.
>>
>>      A race capable of this sort of atavistic thinking, discussing,
>> dispassionately, "countervalues" and "megatonnage," when what is being
>> balanced against ephemeral political considerations is the fate of all
>> God's creation on this planet, is maladaptive -- and not merely
>> maladaptive, but profoundly, immitigably evil.  It can, in fact, do no
>> better than to yield its small patch of the universe to the next random
>> sequence of nucleotides to infuse the void with intelligence, and hope
>> only that that intelligence comports also an element of decency -- the
>> humanity that we who trifle to contemplate Armageddon so utterly and
>> completely lack.  
>> 
>>      So, yes, let's each get a shovel -- dig the hole miles deep -- and
>> when we emerge from the north-to-south, coast-to-coast nuclear firestorm
>> that Milo imagines we'll somehow survive, into the foul, contaminant,
>> irremediably radioactive nuclear winter of a dying planet -- lethally
>> raped by its unique sentient inhabitants -- we'll have perhaps the
>> consolation that all the members of our own species who happen to have
>> been born on another continent, and with whose leaders we once *disagreed
>> politically*, are also dead.  In the cold, the dark, the lifeless,
>> infertile emptiness, without food, without potable water, consumed from
>> within by radiation sickness and inanition, we should have hours or days
>> to meditate on this comforting reflection.  And to watch the human
>> race...go out.
>> -- 
>>
>> ..akgua!uf-csv!mark     Mark Fishman
>> CSNET: mark@ufl         Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
>>                         University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611
>
> Good grief...  This is what some people call rationality.  This reminds
> me of an instance where Teller was giving a talk at UC and someone
> asked him a question in the same vain...  He just stood there,
> looked a bit puzzled, and sighed.
>
> Milo

     So Milo, whose vast intellect seems nevertheless to have failed to 
come to grips with the simplest rudiments of English grammar and spelling,
imagines himself in the mold of Edward Teller.  Interesting.

     Well, I suppose he *does* share with Teller the capacity for
puzzlement.  It is, after all, the paradigmatic clinical response of
paranoids whose delusionary system is challenged, as well as that of
sociopaths confronted with honest emotion.  Yes, Milo, you spoke better
than you knew.  Your reactions are, just exactly *and* "in the same"
..."vain."
                     Mark F.


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..akgua!uf-csv!mark     Mark Fishman
CSNET: mark@ufl         Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
                        University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611

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