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PRIME_DIRECTIVE

                                              May 01, 2006

  The prime directive
  requires that you
  distinguish between           The concept of "the prime directive"
  superior cultures             was introduced in an un-used Star
  deserving equal               Trek script written by Theodore
  status and inferior           Sturgeon... who I sometimes think
  ones that must be             of as one of "the secret masters of
  protected from                reality": an unacknowledged
  contamination.                architect of the present day world.

                                     THE_SECRET_MASTERS_OF_DESTINY
  This sort of attitude
  is amazingly common,
  particularly among
  nice liberal people
  who you would think
  would know better.


  They confuse preserving
  authenticity with
  preserving primitivism.


     How can anyone say
     that a particular
     culture is not
     allowed to be part           ETHNICALLY_AUTHENTIC
     of the modern world?


        Not allowed to
        influence, or be        I can imagine
        influenced?             that a culture
                                might want some
                                distance from
                                the mainstream,         AMISH
                                but ignorance
                                can not possibly
                                be relied on as
                                a firewall.


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