Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:47:25 EDT
From: ABlainey@aol.com
Subject: Re: Extropia NETwork TV
In a message dated 14/08/00 12:36:08 GMT Standard Time, steve@multisell.com
writes:
I think on first view it is a good idea, but I we may be viewed as
>another wacko group preaching the sermon. I hope not. There has been a
>greater swing towards Transhumanist themes on channels such as Discovery
and
>especially Discover SCI TREK. Max was on a program the other week and the
>extropian "society" was mentioned and put across in good light. (a repeat I
>believe)
> It would be good to see a program dedicated to us and some of the
things
>we are doing to progress the human state for the betterment of mankind.
Maybe
>we could put a program together ourselves, Im sure between us we have the
>resources and certainly the talent and enough subject matter to keep the
>average Joe interested for an hour.
Alex
Why the lack of ambition? The scientologists & rabid Christian cultists seem
to be able to put together
TV channels and big recruitment drives .... if you think that "radical
futurism" can be covered in an hour-long doc and repeated ... then there
can't be very much to your mental universe.
> There are, I understand, several Christian and other fringe/religious
> channels in the USA ... and some planned for the UK. I have been
approached
> by some of the "pagan movement" about setting up a pagan/ new age channel
> (cable, not internet).
>
>oh no, tree hugger mother earth TV. I can imagine it now.
Extropianism can be dismissed in similar throw-away terms (robotic sci-fi
fantasists &c) ... but the facts are that there is a *synergy* between the
interests of techno-pagans, nu-agers and extropians ... all of which groups
want progress away from failing aspects of the inert shopping-channel
mainstream.
"Posthumans" were mentioned by Blavatsky in the Secret Doctrine in the
1800's, and surely no Extropian or trans-human can disagree with the
Victorian adept McGegor Mather's advice that we try to be "more than human."
"Tree-hugging" environmentalists tend to be scientists ... surely none of us
argues for the destruction of Earth?
Global warming seems to have something to do with the recent forest fires in
the States, Alex, or are you pleased to see the destruction of all these
trees?
Response to the Extropian & Nu-Age TV/ Radio have been quite good (I see
them as two separate things from a programming perspective, but maybe
sharing infrastructure & advertising &c).
Love & Peace
www.steve-nichols.com
www.post-human.com trans-human.com posthuman.org
neohuman.com X-human.com Extropia.net
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