From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 20:12:52 MDT
At 01:34 PM 7/20/03 -0700, Mike wrote:
>Well, I don't think so, nor do many others who have emailed me with
>their support. Nor can you point to any actual accomplishments, either.
>The Luddites continue to win, legislatively, commercially, and in
>public sentiment.
I have said this to you many time, Mike: Start your own organization. If
you can do it better than anyone else, then do it!
> > But I'm not going to state here what my plans are at this time.
>
>This is par for the course.
No, it is not par for the course.
You just went to a meeting where you were inspired to pursue your
activistic yearnings and now you are blaming me for there not being an
outlet for you to be an activist. I am not the person to be blaming. The
fact that I did not pass on the baton for Pro-Act is (1) no one qualified
to take it on emailed me asking to help out; (2) I could not think of any
one person who was objective enough to take it on; (3) I was not sure if
Pro-Act was indeed the right direction to go in with dealing with the
current political and social global anti-biotechnology leanings.
While Pro-Act was timely and could have been an effective activist
organization for warding off the luddites, in hindsight it was not the
direction I think best uses our extropic transhumanist ideas. Instead of
fighting the opposition, it is might be more meaningful to communicate with
the opposition. After so much name calling between the transhumanist
organizations - Socialist, Libertarian, libertarian, Democratic, Marxist,
Facist, Republican, etc. et al., it seemed that moving beyond the obvious
politicalized transhumanist sentiment is a better way of dealing with how
people "think."
I am more interested in the architecture of how people think and the
"design" of changing thinking than I am "fighting" the opposition. We may
never change the way a many in the Greenpeace community or the Rifkin
community, or the Leon Cass community, but we can design ways that will
help people communicate about the problems more effectively.
In the latest newsletter I asked people to comment. That would have been a
great opportunity to you to communicate with me about what we are doing.
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
http://www.transhumanist.biz
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