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Miranda
"stay with me, it's
a dream"
This nOde
last updated January 20th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
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Miranda
Miranda (me-ràn´de)
noun
The satellite of Uranus
that is closest to the planet.
[After Miranda, daughter
of the
magician
Prospero in
Shakespeare's
_The
Tempest_.]
Miranda
Miranda (me-ràn´de)
adjective
Of, relating to, upholding,
or being a Supreme Court decision requiring that a person under arrest
be
informed
of his or her rights to remain silent and to have legal counsel.
[After Ernesto A. Miranda, plaintiff in the case of Miranda v. Arizona (1966).]
604
entity Miranda aka Miranda Silvergren
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In places like Russia and Germany,
the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores,
and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed
everything up and turned the century into an abbatoir. Those wordy intellectuals
used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.
We Americans are the only ones who didn't get creamed at some point during all
of this. We are free and prosperous because we have inherited political and
values systems fabricated by a particular set of eighteenth-century intellectuals
who happened to get it right. But we have lost touch with those intellectuals,
and with anything like intellectualism, even to the point of not reading books
any more, though we are literate. We seem much more comfortable with propagating
those values to future generations nonverbally, through a
process
of being steeped in media. Apparently this actually works to some degree, for
police in many lands are now complaining that local arrestees are insisting
on having their Miranda rights read to them, just like perps in American TV
cop shows. When it's explained to them that they are in a different country,
where those rights do not exist, they become outraged. _Starsky and Hutch_ reruns,
dubbed
into diverse
languages,
may turn out, in the long run, to be a greater
force
for human rights than the _Declaration of Independence_.
-
Neal
Stephenson - _In The Beginning Was The Command Line_