Reply #47: Findings that are kept locked up and hid, that say breaking the law.......

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for the common good is acceptable (thus legal). Twisted ideas by twisted minds is one demented way to run things. I am sure them good rational Christian fundamentalists can twist the minds of their brethren cult members (like they did in the dark ages) to rationalize why torture is a good and productive thing. A thing that this Character named God would not let happen if it was not needed. I would say the guy that comes up with that type of reasoning was just a reincarnation of the guy who sold the Brooklyn Bridge for cheap.

Such a nice Christian nation under reigns of Mr.Bush

The New Dark Age Revisited

John Horvath 05.02.2002
The torture debate illustrates how the latest in technological wizardry is not necessary to plunge us into the depths of intellectual darkness

In 1996 Mark Stahlman, a former technology analyst on Wall Street, espoused his theories about the rise of the New Dark Age. At that time, he couldn't have foreseen how quickly circumstances would develop to this end. Even so, the new dark age has turned out to be not exactly what he -- or many others like him -- thought it would be. Then, in the eyday of the "Internet Revolution", it was considered that technology would play a fundamental role in the new dark age. In essence, the new dark age would be primarily a digital dark age.

Recent events, however, have shown this not to be the case. Unlike Stahlman's prophecy that we would be psychologically programmed and that new media networks would become the mechanism of psychological destruction and seamless surveillance, the new dark age has descended in a much more simple manner: that of self-censorship and collective amnesia. In other words, the latest in technological wizardry is not required to plunge us into the depths of darkness.

This is where many of the doom and gloom philosophers of the past made their mistake. Caught up in the euphoria of the so-called "Internet Revolution", Stahlman and others were constrained by a binary way of thinking. For them it was clearly black or white: either the new media would be utilized to further the forces of darkness, or it could be used to forestall our personal demise, if we could just grasp its positive potential in good time.
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/11/11731/1.html