>JCWisc at aol.com wrote:
>> >One further question. Would the scientific knowledge and technological
>> >skill
>> >necessary to build new computers still be there, but people would stoically
>> >refuse to use them? Or would the knowledge and skill themselves disappear?
>
>Doug Henwood:
>> Well, you might need bookstores or libraries or databases - all of
>> which would require - ewwww - institutions. And to read them, you'd
>> need schools - ewwwww again. But we'd all be so unalienated we'd
>> forget to miss them!
>
>So now we need coercion even to read?
To a point, yes. Would kids go to school on their own, if neither the law nor their parents required it?
But leaving that aside, I was referring to Chuck0's antipathy to institutions of any breadth or permanance. He seems to be agin' 'em.
Doug