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- § It's said that an infinite number of monkeys typing away at keyboards will eventually reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare. § What they don't say is that the total amount of matter in the universe, if turned into monkeys and typewriters, powered by all energy present in the universe, to feed the monkeys in question, working for a hundred billion years, can't possibly create as much as the first act of Hamlet. § One Infinite Monkey--i.e., a human being--can write all of Shakespeare's works in the course of a single lifetime... if that Infinite Monkey happens to be Shakespeare. § You are an Infinite Monkey. So am I. Amphibians are we, half spirit and half worm: monkeys in the sense that we are Steve Gerber's “hairless apes, trapped in a world we never made”; infinite in the sense that we are also immortal and we shall still live when the sun is a black dwarf. § If you recognize, like this old silverback, that we are a duality and not a mere mechanical emptiness--you may find my writings amusing. If so, welcome. Stay a while. And feel free to comment. (But keep it clean.)
Hey, I thought I'd let you know I've been looking at this blog. In my opinion, you have some very good positions, but after reading some of your posts I want to say that every government is a theocracy. The question is, who will be the god and whose law will it be? In our case, it seems man and reason are the "gods" of our government.
ReplyDeleteOh, almost forgot, you know me from humanevents.com, my name is Bryan. I debated you for a while.
Hello, Bryan. Pleased to meet you. Feel free to email me privately.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you about the statement that "every government is a theocracy"; I'd modify it as follows: that every government is run, to one extent or another, by autotheocrats (those who think they are God).
OTOH, one recalls the brilliant Star Trek novel, "How Much for Just The Planet?" It is the only Star Trek musical ever written (the characters all break out in Gilbert and Sullivan pastiches for no reason).
Anyway, the schtick is that Kirk and Spock have found a planet colonized by malcontent humans, who, in order to keep government small, have based it on the patter of Abbott and Costello.
"You mean," Kirk says, "that you run your government based on....comedy routines?"
The local replies: "Doesn't everyone? Not by that name, of course."