Doug Jones wrote:
> "Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> >
> > Is there a document someplace that relates some fairly well understood
> > philosophies (democrat/republican/socialist/communist/libertarian) into their
> > extro-speak equivalents (left-transhumanist/leftropians/extropic/borganist)?
> >
>
> Splitting the political spectrum into more than one dimension seems to
> help- see http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html for a basic version of the
> concept. That site is obviously biased toward a libertarian agenda
> (fine by me but a bit blatant for my tastes). I think that someone (not
> me!) should look into adding a third or maybe even a fourth (useful)
> dimension that would better separate the political stances of various
> politicians and parties.
I would suggest that 'technological freedom' be added as a third axis. Doing so
would definitely split up all the camps to indicate relative loyalty to extropic
vs. borganist positions.
-- TANSTAAFL!!!Michael S. Lorrey Director, Grafton County Fish & Game Assoc. http://www.lorrey.com/gcfga/ Member, Extropy Institute http://www.extropy.org Member, National Rifle Association http://www.nra.org "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils." - General John Stark
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