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tbyfield@panix.com - korporat fascist typed >really, you talk as though you're the first academic in the world >to notice that his/her lot in life is precarious. i quite agree >that teaching students to consider these questions is important-- >that's *exactly* what i teach them, as a matter of fact. but you >describe class in a very short-term and stratified way, and your >proposed reform makes clear that students are at best second-class >citizens in your 'class': they're the ones who would pay more to >join the ranks in order to benefit those ranks. that, to me, is >unacceptable: it's the *existing* ranks, who by dint of their age >have greater access to material opportunity, who should go out of >their way to give younger people a leg up, even if they do so at >their own (specific or general) expense. call that 'sacrificial >labor' if you want, in fact go ahead and do so: the idea that >life should involve no sacrifices of this kind is one of the very >worst legacies of the last few generations, whose stewardship of >the world they inherited would be laughable if it wasn't so vile. >if scrambling to join their ranks before the door closes means >stepping all over younger people, well then that's a choice that >some will maker, i guess. you'd better hope that all those little >atlases you're creating don't shrug, though. 6 essential aspekts of the kreative darwinian process that bootstraps quality 00 - a reasonably komplex pattern must be involved 02 - the pattern must be kopied 04 - variant patterns must at times be produced by chance 04 - the kompetition is biased by a multifaceted environment. natural selektion 06 - a skewed survival to reproduktive maturity exists or a skewed distribution of those adults who successfully mate exists - sexual selektion. environmental selektion is mostly juvenile mortality 0 0 0 || KORPORAT KR!EG MACHT 3k0R KUNST N[>] IMF - the International Meme Fund - shear pathway to the core. - promoting meme development. lokomotion. + reinvestment. - meme sekurity + meme transaktions. [>] ||||||||||||||||||||| rekurrent exc!tat!on || ||||||||eusocial.com – – – – – – – – – – – – Ò – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – pro satisfacer le metro – – Ò – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – < 0\ zve!te[z]!ztem \1 > _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold