Re: Heston's Speech

From: Michael Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Feb 22 2001 - 12:03:59 MST


Neal Blaikie wrote:
>
> Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
> > I'm missing the conflicting viewpoint you're talking about. By
> > insisting on free speech, not merely politically correct speech is
> > completely aplicable to the extropian principals.
>
> I was trying (not very successfully, apparently) to point out how I see
> side-taking or thinking in oppositional terms to be anti-progess:
> backward thinking, not forward thinking. This seems to conflict with
> extropian thought. I was questioning your rhetorical methods, not the
> content of the thing you were responding to.

Depends on what you define as 'progress'. You can't progress 'forward'
to anywhere unless you CHOOSE, until you MAKE A DECISION about what
direction you think 'progress' and 'forward' lies. In doing so, you
choose a side, and until you do, you are progressing forward to nowhere,
you are just marking time in place, standing for nothing.



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