"Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 01 May 2011, 21:35 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 16:35:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
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On 5/1/2011 3:01 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Exactly. But there's nothing inevitable about exclusion from
> democracy/humanity.

I don't see how a such a democracy can obtain the means to enforce these 
ideals over all the world without corrupting them and rendering the 
enforcement moot.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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