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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)

ew

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)

er

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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