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“The New Spartans are poised
for a kidnap of mass mind. Each Fundamentalist army has its weapons
ready; the internet, armies of virtue and instruments of massacre.
And each feels chosen to impose it’s purged & regimented
paradise on all humanity. But the mass mind needs it’s Faustian
introverts, it’s oddballs, kooks & deviants, its challengers
of holy Mother Earth, of sectarian righteousness & of traditional
ways. It needs it’s internationalists, cross cultural floaters,
homosexuals, abortion supporters, cosmopolitans, explorers &
imagineers, those who extend their reach beyond old boundaries &
open new frontiers. The blasphemers, the fundamentalists feel God
bound to eliminate, are the mass mind’s option makers, it’s
catalysts of new hypotheses. In an atmosphere of debate, new approaches
thrive. But when bullets replace words as disagreement settlers,
the mass intelligence nosedives. Totalitarian Spartans must be stopped
by pluralists. This is a task which falls to our century’s
Athenians – upholders of diversity in a sea of harsh conformity.”
From “Global Brain“ by Howard Bloom
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