On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:55 pm, you wrote:
> Let the homophobes, the socialists, the racists, the religious,
> the luddites, the reactionaries, the anarchists, the statists,
> and all the others whose opinions are likely to be unpopular here
> speak up. We'll take them all on!
>...
This is perhaps not the wisest attitude. People generally have a
finite amount of attention to devote to details ... whatever they
choose to consider details. Many of those don't have very much to
do with (what I choose to consider) extropianism. There are
clearly reasonable definitions which would include all those
factors, but any such group, in order to properly forcast it's
focus area, would need to largely dismiss some of the others as
"inappropriate for this group". There's just too much information
available to consider large areas in detail.
It was said earlier that <plonk>ing someone was a kind of self
censorship. And this is true. It's also true, however, that any
individual will need to restrict the focus of their awareness. I
have never read a complete copy of the London Times. Not even the
daily. There are good arguments as to why it might be a good thing
for me to do this occasionally, but I've always found something
else that I would rather devote my attention to.
--
Charles Hixson
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