-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: New Utopia
>Boris Goldshmit wrote:
>
>> Excellent Point! It is absolutely not necessary to create a new and
>> independent country in order to purse goals of transhumanism
>> or any other ideological, political, or religious movement. The idea
>> is just a nostalgic appeal to the disappearing age of state dominated
>> social and political world order. A more contemporary organization
>> which can easily transcend state lines and provide environment and
>> infrastructure will serve muchmore effectively to further the cause
without
>> unnecessary overhead usually associated with a creation of a new
>> Utopian state (We still have to see one). A corporation is one of the
>> many options. What is nexi? Sorry, I am a newbie...
>
>I may have an idea on how an extropian nation could be wrangled into
existence
>with minimal difficulty. I see it as a political parallel of the common
>business practice of buying a shell corporation. In business, there are
many
>companies which have listings on Stock Exchanges, but no longer operate any
>business. The easiest way for a start up company to get listed on a major
stock
>exchange is to buy one of these shell corporations.
>
>How I would apply this to the political transaction of creating an
extropian
>state easily is going to involve a bit of environmental science here. I was
>watching a program on the Discovery Channel about the West Antarctic Ice
Sheet,
>and how it is expected to collapse some time in the near future (20-200
years)
>due to global warming, or some other unknown cause. When this ice sheet
>collapses (they say when, not if), it is expected that sea levels will rise
>several tens of meters, which will be enough to flood many existing island
>nations around the world. As many of these nations will not want to give up
>their national sovereignty, even though they are then no longer dry land, I
>expect that the UN will make some special exemption to the 'dry land'
clause to
>preserve these nations. I also expect that at least one, if not more of
these
>nations, will simply be abandoned by nations which cannot afford to build
sea
>platforms. This is where we can step in, buying the country out. We could
even
>plan ahead on this and work out an agreement with some island nations ahead
of
>time that we would get the capital to build sea structures in return for
>concessions.....
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>TANSTAAFL!!!
> Michael Lorrey
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