Love & peace, may I become a Buddah for the benefit of all.
Having kicked about in Extropian and transhuman circles for a while now, I
am clearer in my mind why the transhuman 'gradualist' approach is not
sufficient.
The so-called 'radical' transhumanism is no longer radically futurist - it
is just a philosophical wing of big business and the political mainstream.
With the adoption of the internet on a wide scale and the NASDAQ explosion,
the
weight of mainstream commercial and media opinion has actually been
"transhuman", for some time, particularly in the wake of the 2000 millenium
build-up.
Extropians are keen to have their heads crycogenically preserved ... but so
what, didn't Disney have this idea in the 50's or 60's? The extropian
debates about the pro's & cons of the death penalty in the States and so on
is hardly cutting-edge, not much you can't find in letters page of The
Times.
If you are labelled, and predisposed, to a state of intellectual limbo ...
then you are travelling but never arriving .... permanantly in a
transitional state. And who is to judge when the 'change' has occurred
anyway?
So the swifter and more positive, radical, option is to declare yourself
post- or neohuman at the outset, act as though it were true, and wait for
the changes to happen all by themselves!
www.X-human.com E-ZINE is clawing its way out of the creative abyss, hungry
for articles and amusing drawings. Anything with a posthuman theme, please,
'hot' and unusual features, photos, &c.
www.Att.ac new website is aimed at academic reform, and in particular the
demolition of the dismal and failed "analytic" human-era conventionalist
school of western philosophy that has taken hold.
Have you read any philosophical journals lately ... long-winded,
self-important, content-free cryptic garbage.
These "philosophers" along with, perhaps, the behaviourism-derived
"clinical" psychology establishment, are overdue a major shakeout. There are
better, newer methods and systems of thought around, and these two big,
suffocating "intellectual cobwebs" need to be blown away.
So mote it be.
Steve
www.Steve-Nichols.com Hypnotist & MVT Psychotherapist
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www.Post-human.com Posthuman Movement (since 1989)
MVT all-conquering philosophy www.multi.co.uk/identity.htm
www.Enochian-chess.com 6th degree magick & self-initiation
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