From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com> Subject: Re: Need no little Kaisers no more Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:53:55 -0500 >>In Caesar's world, Caesar valued quite >>highly his roads, bridges, siege engines and aqueducts and those who created >>them. Fact. What priest every designed a Trident submarine, cruise missle or >>M1-A1 tank? > >This guy is incredibly thick and proud of it- though he can't even >write. He acknowledges that the servile place of the engineer is >determined by that of the despot. But *credibly* as it might seem, he >misses three critical realizations: first, that the modern >technobureaucrat, the modern engineer, does not need no Caesars no more >- and follows instead the flows in another body, that of Kapital, sacred >corporate cow; secondly, he misses how the Asiatic State unmistakably >shows that all the hydraulic works of engineering were the work of >priestly imperial bureaucracies (from Mexico to China), if not the >technical validation for their separation from civil society; and >finally, he misses the fact that war technologies were invented first by >nomads and not by priest-engineers or technobureaucrats. > >LC Stick another fork in me, I'm really done now. Not sure which is more absurd, Fritz's genetic mutation of cruise missles or LambdaC's concept that they were created by nomads. I think they're both pulling our legs. John T. Duryea --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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