BLASPHEMOUS OPTIMISM an email from John Goode

Date:   7/27/2007 12:34:15 PM ( 17 y ago)

on 7/27/07 9:48 AM, John Goode wrote:

Johnnie has had a lot of replacements.
of body parts. He is a happy camper,
married to the woman of his dreams (in part).
She is one of my best friends.
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BLASPHEMOUS OPTIMISM
"The biggest event of the last 20 years˜the collapse of the Soviet Union˜occurred without violence: the first nonviolent revolution of that size in all of human history, extending from Berlin to Siberia.


"Nelson Mandela went from a prison cell to the President's office in a country that evolved from white supremacy to power-sharing in only seven years.

"The Internet more and more evolves toward the planetary brain once only imagined by visionary scientists like Tielhard de Chardin and Arthur Clarke.


"What some call my 'blasphemous cheerfulness' or my 'cockeyed optimism' just depends on my basic agnosticism. We don't know the outcome of the current worldwide transformation, so it seems sick and decadent (in the Nietzschean sense) when fashionable opinion harps on
all the gloomy alternatives and resolutely ignores the utopian
possibilities that seem equally likely (and, on the basis of past evolution, perhaps a little more likely)." ˜Robert Anton Wilson,
http://www.rawilson.com






 

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