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If you could bring back to life one historical figure, who would it be? Who would still have a valuable perspective? Who could still make a contribution? (Assume that they could get up to speed on current events, science, and philosophy rather quickly, instead of just going insane from all the changes.)

My vote: Jonathan Swift

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul Wellstone

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn. Milo trumped me all the way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

El Duce.

― andy, Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Francis, Augustine, Aquanis

― anthony, Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oswald

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.web2000.com/heathen/duce_dr.jpg

― andy, Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Cook.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

he's not historical, per se, but the first person who came to mind was Elliott. I miss him so much.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 14 February 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Pillman

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 14 February 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Bon Scott.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 February 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the world would be sunnier if Andy Warhol were still around.

― Mellow Dee (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 14 February 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Rabin.

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/images/gauss.jpeg
Gauss, fools!

― adam (adam), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Douglas Adams

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

William M. Gaines

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 14 February 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ambrose Bierce, easily. (First job: replacing Tim Russert as Bush's interviewer.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 February 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Felled Afghan Northern Alliance leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud (killed by assassins posing as journalists Sept. 9, 2001). He probably had the best idea of how to catch/kill Bin Laden.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ogden Nash: He just might see the humor in all this muck.
But if he can't make it, please bring back Groucho. He could sit in for Letterman.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Nietzsche on bioethics

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

why?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know either ew or er. Are they from africa?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i suspect that Orbit assumes our pal fredich would be a bit too much in favour of eugenics

― anthony, Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Eugenics ...lol. He never was about that of course.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Man and Superman and all that

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a moral question not a racial one--the superman is one who overcomes the world around him.

i agree about nietzsche in general worth having around.

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the definition of superior and its equation with the willingness to use power without moral restraint is troubling.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Wilde! Mencken! Payne! Proust! Goethe!

― Aaron A., Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Orbit, do you know about Foucault?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

yes i do. but neitzche has an element to proscriptiveness compared to Foucault's emphasis on analysis of hememonic apparatus. Neitzche, like Machiavelli, are more clearly handbooks for the oppressor.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hegemonic
sorry

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Handlebooks for the oppressors, now. hahaha. You read him as bad as the nazis. I don't want to hijack this thread so that's it for me.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

me too.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 14 February 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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