From: Randy S (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 12:03:22 MDT
Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> said:
>
> --- "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > < http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32170.html >
INteresting quote from the above article:
>>>>
Both those details, and the fact that he's "well-educated" are pretty
superfluous in Extropian circles, where the disciples are uniformly white and
well educated. We're not sure if they all weigh 185 pounds, but they're
certainly very, very rich.
How did it start?
A few years ago a bunch of extremely wealthy Californians met, liked the look
of each other a lot, and formed a group called Extropians. Revealed to the
world in a Wired article in 1994 as "a philosophy of boundless expansion, of
upward - and outwardness, of fantastic superabundance," their greeting was
described in some quite painful detail, for us, thus:
>>>>>
Extremely wealthy, huh? Naw, I doubt it...maybe greg burch, the law firm
partner, but as for the other extropians often quoted in the media? Hmmmm....
I have to wonder how this wealth attribute came to be associated with
extropians. A lot of extropians are grad students....not exactly a breeding
ground for extreme wealth, that. Even recently graduated PHD are seldom
wealthy....unless they inherited it. Which doesn't exactly say much...or
does it?
-- -------------- -Randy
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