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  • From: "Michael D. Thomas"<mdthomas AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: UNIX is the devil's work
  • Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:59:57 -0400



>Maybe Microsoft is right after all, or at
> least is trying to be right, trying
>to get to the deepmost root of our
>civilization, the Roman culture, and
>trying to bring us Kerberos a.k.a.
>Elysium a.k.a. Heaver.

Hmmm... I think that the polytheistic model
that the Greeks and Romans used
is great for the "religion" of technology...
You have your God/dess of Open Source, God/dess
of Properietary Software, God/dess of The
Network, etc. And of course, all those
daemons.

I assume that someone has mapped this all
out somewhere. A quick google on "religion
computers polytheism microsoft" didn't
produce anything on-target, but there was
this interesting and very earnest article
on technoshaminism from 1997:

http://www.equip.org/free/DC228.htm

I personally could never rewire for polytheism,
but it does seem to yield more rich
drama than the 1xN god/mortal and Nx1
mortal/god relationships of monotheism most
common in our culture.














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