Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Robinson Crusoe Message-ID: <903@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 13:13:42 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.903 Posted: Sun Jul 7 13:13:42 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 00:44:52 EDT References: <2380049@acf4.UUCP>, <670@whuxl.UUCP> <191@maxvax.UUCP> Organization: Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments Co. Lines: 17 ["The blatantly obvious things we take for granted never escape his keen eye!"] Why this debate over independence vs. interdependence? Surely it's a question of scale. You don't use libertarian principles on your spouse or babies. Neither do you take personal responsibility for your millions of compatriots. Enlightenment-style democracy is a system for large, anonymous masses of people. It didn't exist until the standardization of language made such masses possible. And it won't exist after electronic communication makes anonymity impossible. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva