From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 15:45:13 MDT
At 05:17 PM 7/19/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Given it seems that there are some others who share my frustration with
>the inactivity of Pro-Act over the last two years, and given that
>Natasha has ascended to run ExI, I'd like to propose that someone new
>and more action oriented be elected or appointed to run Pro-Act, to
>work toward getting it organized and building a membership, some
>fundraising, a board of directors, so on and so forth to actually put
>some Act back in Pro-Act (unless by 'act' you mean a put-on).
>
>I have made similar proposals, that Pro-Act get its butt in gear, at
>least twice before, which were both totally ignored by the lords of
>ExI, with neither public nor private response. Consider this my last
>request. If the people on high continue to blow it off, I will consider
>my need for this organization to be at an end.
I'm going to give the same response to your public post that I did to your
private post.
The only comment I have to make is that sometimes things happen which gets
in the way of our plans. People lose jobs, get divorced, or deal with a
death of a loved one. These unplanned wild cards can interrupt our lives
to such a degree that sometimes, we have to start all over again.
This is not the case with me. What I had intended to do with Pro-Act will
be accomplished in another way, through another means, with a another goal,
and for another, but I think better, result.
So, it is unfortunate that the very day at Extro 5 that I gave my talk and
made a public announcement of Pro-Act I was hemorging. It is also
unfortunate that I learned I have cancer 2 days later, and that I had
surgery 3 days later, and have spent the last 2 years in remission.
Dealing with cancer is major.
Putting this aside, I think my concept of Pro-Act was a success because
what I have been doing for the past two years has been far above and beyond
what I had planned to do as a person and with activism, and pursuing a very
important and well-needed concept for the world.
But I'm not going to state here what my plans are at this time.
Natasha
Natasha Vita-More
http://www.natasha.cc
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President, Extropy Institute
http://www.extropy.org
Founder, Transhumanist Arts & Culture
http://www.transhuman.org
http://www.extropic-art.com
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