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Date Posted: Tue 2003-06-03 06:33:45
Author: sweetheart
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neruomancer
In reply to: Redeye 's message, "The link..." on Tue 2003-06-03 04:08:27

When you first mentioned liberal manifesto on DU, i thought that surely it must already be published as a book, being such an excellent and obvious title for a much needed work....

I've noticed in writing my first textbook, that the most challenging thing has been writing from an outline rather than using the "force". The organization and sequencing of knowledge is too complex for me to do in linear text... and that is quite different from writing a essay or article where i just letterrrip.

Please, i hope you take the manifesto to book form and i can help as an editor if you need feedback on readability and organization.... a short outline and a target length given your demonic writing speed... i'm much slower except on things like this.... i can crank out 2500 word essays no problemo, but 80,000 word treatises come out like water in the desert.

What i mean by neuromancer, is that the book of that title by william gibson created in a single book the term "cyberspace" and became the core vision for a generation of internet hacks.... i would be surprised if you have not read it, but if you have not, how excellent for you that such an awesome book awaits you.

A book in that genre with characters immersed in your liberal utopia, perhaps like all countries in the world are "perfect" except for zimbabwe which has mugabe XII in 2200.. The novel is about the struggle of missionary zealots in zimbabwe to overthrow the last dictator, and the ethical conflict of imperial liberalism clashing with the enlightenment...

The right novel can spread ideas like wild fire (1984, Brave newworld, neuromancer, farenheit 451, martian cronicles, harrypotter) tahnks for the link

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I see... -- Redeye, Tue 2003-06-03 11:09:17
- May I suggest another implementation/metaphor -- arendt, Tue 2003-06-03 12:04:03
  - I never thought of that... I fear that I won't be able to be much of help in that case -- Redeye, Tue 2003-06-03 12:30:25
- Can I have a link to NationStates? Who wrote it? -- arendt, Tue 2003-06-03 13:21:19
  - It's http://www.nationstates.net -- Redeye, Tue 2003-06-03 13:58:32
    - Re: It's http://www.nationstates.net -- goobergunch, Tue 2003-06-03 16:12:14
      - Thank you both -- arendt, Tue 2003-06-03 20:52:37