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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Listen here, Paul V. Torek!!!
Message-ID: <710@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 12:37:55 EDT
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In article <10204@ucbvax.ARPA> fagin@ucbvax.UUCP (Barry Steven Fagin) writes:
> (Insert (:-) wherever necessary)

(Missed that the first time thru.  Makes a big difference.)

> Okay, Mr. Torek... as a committed wimp, (excuse me, centrist), you get to 
> survey the intellectual frontier, picking and choosing the ideas you
> like.  So let me put this to you: which of the following doctrines,
> in your opinion, should we draw the most of our ideas from if we're
> going to solve as many problems of the world as possible?
> 
> 	1) conservativism 
> 	2) liberalism
> 	3) libertarianism
> 	4) populism
> 	5) other (*NOT* centrism, please.  Centrism has no ideas of
> 		 its own)
> 
> 	I'm looking for a real opinion here: no wimping out by saying
> that they all contribute equally.

Of course they all don't contribute equally.  But why shouldn't they all
contribute?  Eclecticism (like reassortment of genes) is essential to
social evolution.

> If you straddle the fence all your life, certain parts of your anatomy
> may cease to function.

However if you stand on the fence, you'll be head and shoulders above the
others.  :-)
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh