Re: Present Dangers to Transhumanism

retroman@mail.turbont.net
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:14:42 EDT

Max More wrote:
>
> At 01:43 PM 8/27/99 +0000, Damien wrote:
> >At 01:08 PM 26/08/99 -0700, Kathryn wrote:
> >
> >> (Although I must say I have no clue who the
> >>'transhumanist left' is.
> >
> >Speaking.
> >
> >Damien Broderick
>
> Ah, Damien, so *you're* the guy sitting on the left hand side of the king
> in the French court!
>
> Really, can't we drop useless terms like "left" and "right" when talking
> about transhumanism. If we can think more carefully about so many issues,
> why use such meaningless and unhelpful political terms?

The proper terms for the 'right' and 'left' in transhumanist thought are 'extropic' and 'borganist', respectively...

Mike Lorrey