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HELLO. HELLO. CAN YOU HEAR ME I AM CALLING LONG DISTANCE. CAN YOU HEAR<41>
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ME.
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A message in two parts.
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Part one. EFF -- Thanks, truly, for everything. Mitch, John, Rita, the<68>
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two hardcore techie nerds I ate dinner with (flattery not an insult! :-)<29>
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(I are one too). John Berman too, even though he wears a suit and lives<65>
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in DC. (Another joke; see part2.)
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And thanks for the award. I really am awed by it all, in spite of<6F>
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appearing to some to not take it seriously (see part 2).
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Part two. John (Barlow) -- I hope you didn't think I was baiting you or<6F>
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whatever that night in Tenney's room. I wasn't. Really. I was sincere.<2E>
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Chalk it up to culture-clash. YOU EAT LIVE BUGS OUT OF THE AIR?? YUCK!!<21>
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That sort of thing. I noticed an interesting thing when I started to<74>
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think about it. Here 'tis for your enjoyment:
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I had a number of subtle and really quite minor reality-jarring<6E>
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experiences at CFP2 also. Nothing serious -- just things that I/they<65>
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said that they/I took wrong. ("Was s/he kidding? Was I just insulted?<3F>
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Was that a joke? Hmm..." etc)
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A specific example, at HACKERS 3.0? The one in the jewish retreat in<69>
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Santa Clara or wherever. I was in some variation of punk drag, and Rudy<64>
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Rucker says, with a flourish, "Great look." I was insulted! Not great<61>
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hair, great jacket, whatever (flattery) but I took it instinctively to<74>
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mean, what a great costume/disguise/whatever, ie. I dressed up for the<68>
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occasion ie. this isn't really me. Maybe I can't describe the sensation<6F>
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now, because it was so long ago.
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Most likely he wasn't privvy to the tensions ever-present in various<75>
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other-cultures, which are always under attack and under explicit or<6F>
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implied pressure. And I was certainly far too touchy. The specific<69>
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information is lost (Hawking tells us time == entropy). Obviously I took<6F>
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it far too seriously, but that was my state at the time. I know Rudy is<69>
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a cool person. Oh well. I believe I would have a very different response<73>
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to the same event today.
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I offer this (CFP2, Rudy at Hackers, etc) as: an example of social<61>
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symbol misinterpretation. This is how it happens. And this is within a<>
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fairly homogenous bunch of smart people! These are obviously very minor,<2C>
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otherwise-unimportant events of course.
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Imagine what can happen when people are *truly* different.
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I know you know about this. I thought you'd find it interesting, like a<>
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found object. And, in some ways it's the flip-side to my frustration in<69>
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trying to describe to netpeople (amongst others) my difficulty with<74>
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access related issues (ie. affordability, specific social symbols and<6E>
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images being moved about, "cultural imperialism" (can you think of a<>
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better phrase), etc).
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No reply necessary. I realize this is a long message.
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PS: Q: What's the opposite of entropy? A: Consciousness.
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END OF MESSAGE
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CARRIER LOST
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#$$($_)_~~i~i~~
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