------------------------------------------------------
   And yet... we still go on believing that _today's_ version of things is
  the only right one.  We've never had systems that would allow us to
  handle more than one way of seeing things at a time.  So, we've always
  had to have conformity with the current view.  Disagree with the church,
  and you were punished as a heretic; with the political system, as a
  revolutionary; with the scientific establishment, a charlatan; with the
  educational system, as a failure.  If you didn't fit the mould, you were
  rejected.

   But, ironically, the latest product of this way of doing things is an
  instrument, a new system that, while it could make conformity more
  rigid, more totalitarian than ever before in history, could also blow
  everything wide open.  Because with it, we _could_ operate on the basis
  that values and standards, and ethics, and facts and truths all depend
  on what your view of the world is.  And that there may be as many views
  of that as there are people.

   And with this, the microchip, capable of keeping a tally on those
  millions of opinions voiced electronically, we might be able to lift the
  limitations of conforming to any centralized representational form of
  government, originally invented because there was no way for everybody's
  voice to be heard.  

   You might be able to give everybody unhindered, untested access to
  knowledge, because the computer would do the work for which we once
  qualified the select few, in an educational originally designed for a
  world where only the few could be taught.

   You might be able to end the regimentation of people living and working
  in vast, unmanagable cities.  Uniting them instead, in an electronic
  community, where the himalayas and manhattan were only a split-second
  apart.

   You might, with that and much more, break the mould which has held us
  back since the beginning:

   In a future world, that we would describe as balanced anarchy, and THEY
  will describe as open society, tolerent of every view, aware, that there
  is no single, priveledged way of doing things.  Above all, able to do
  away with the greatest tragedy of our era, the centuries-old waste of
  human talent that we couldn't, or wouldn't use.

   Utopia?  Why- If, as I've said all along, the Universe is at any time,
  what you say it is- then say...
                                              -James Burke

------------------------------------------------------------

Mr Io- Wow, i hope you folks read that. Even if you don't agree, at least
it makes you think. Personally, i _do_ agree. E-mail me if you would like
to discuss it with me.

------] Mystery-Info, etc [--------------

I'm not some big ass rock star or shit, i right this shit and get only a
little show of support, mostly drummed up by me.  So if you got my music
and you liked it, i want to hear from you *especially* if i don't know
you.  If you have constructive critisisms, then i would like hear them. 
this is a release of an older track, so it may be that i have changed some
aspect of my style since i wrote this.

My e-mail adress is:  mysterio@ns.sympatico.ca


