From: Tristan Riley <triley-AT-weber.ucsd.edu>
Subject: 'dialogue' with Kirez Korgan
To: technology-AT-world.std.com
Date: Thu, 26 May 94 16:21:56 PDT
Cc: triley-AT-weber.ucsd.edu (me)


Kirez Korgan writes:
>
>>
>>And you keep giving us economics lectures - using such highly biased
>>sources as Henry Hazlitt, who is a well-known ideologue, and not an
>>economist whose ideas are near univerally accepted, as you would imply.
>>
>        I would never imply something so ridiculous - Hazlitt's ideas are
>unpopular when they are not unkown  (but undefeated).
>        Why must you say I'm "giving lectures"?  It seems you're lecturing
>me as well.  I bet you'd love my other sources: FA Hayek, Ludwig Von Mises,
>Frederic Bastiat.

Believe it or not, I imagine you hardly needed to name these as more
than a few people here fairly quickly gathered from reading one or
two of your posts that these are the sources from which you derive your 
ideas about technology, economics, philosophy, 'progress', etc.  I *am* a bit
surprised that Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff didn't make the list though.

>>If you wish only to preach and to put down those who would dare to question
>>your highly conventional viewpoints (and an appeal to your proletarian
>>youth - shared with many if not most of history's "captains of industry"
>>is really irrelevant here), I think a philosophy list is not a place where
>>you can expect to find your needs met.
>
>        This is bizarre.  I don't know what you're worried about: there's
>only one person here arguing my viewpoint, and several arguing against me;
>plus I expect that if others became vocal they would also disagree with me.
> And later you say I'm afraid of debate!  If that were the case, I could
>just spew the crap I've been taught in science and tech studies and
>economics and blend in with the rest of you.


Kirez Korgan finally makes a point with which I can agree--there is
absolutely nothing to worry about in Korgan's 'technology + capitalism unadulterated good and progress for the whole world' ideas.  I think
most of the participants in the tech-list 'free market' are in fact
making their market decision known by refusing to take Kirez Korgan
seriously enough to bother responding to such arguments--perhaps
Korgan's  'product' goes away if there are no 'buyers' for such
faulty merchandise.

Tristan