X-Message-Number: 4161
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 20:44:55 -0400
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Re: Who are my readers ?

yvan Bozzonetti <> writes:
> most 1995 readers are american capitalists with a strong disgust for
> communism.

Yes.  Probably because communism has killed tens of millions of people
and impoverished billions.

> On the other side, China, is the economic success story of the ending
> 20 th century.

This must be some new definition of success I hadn't previously been
familiar with.

> Near 2002 it will be the first economy in the world,

In what, alphabetic order?

Care to place a bet?

> twenty years later its per capita gross domestic product will equates
> the american one...

If it's the "first economy in the world" in 2002, why won't it catch
up to the American economy until twenty years after that?  Is America
not part of the world?

> I have no objection towards communism and could adapt readily to it.

I do.  I couldn't.

> Some cryonet users have tell me they prefer to be death than red.

It's not a choice they will ever have to explicitly make.  In the
now-unlikely case that communists take over the world, no cryonics will
be done, since it will always be cheaper for the State to breed new
workers than to resuscitate cryopreserved workers.

> I write mostly for readers not even born in this century.  May be
> this message will be the most 1995 oriented for some time.

It looks to me like you're writing for people born in the *previous*
century.  As late as 1930, some intellectuals could still reasonably
believe that communism might work.  It's been tried in numerous places.
It's failed horribly.  The 21st century is no more likely to return to
communism than it is to return to feudalism, or to bring back slavery.


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