Quoted on Contrary Brin
During the course of his rebuttal to Peter Watts' essay on how to deal with surveillance, David Brin quotes me from a recent email exchange. Well worth a read (his words, I mean).
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I have to admit to being an elitist, I'm sorry. You know, one of the few things you can be arrested for is being an elitist. You can run around the street saying God is dead, and people won't like you, but you're not going to be hated. You can preach the violent overthrow of McDonald's and you'll get away with it, but all you have to say is that, in fact, there are some people who are better than others, and it has nothing to do with race or ethnic background or color or anything like that. What it has to do with is who's got the brains.
—Harlan Ellison
—Harlan Ellison
Thursday, May 29, 2014
