RE: The Politics of Transhumanism

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 14:31:17 MST


---> Mike Lorrey

> > Here's a thought:
> >
> > Those in the humanism camp see trans-humanism. Those in the
> > shackling-ubertech-to-favored-existing-failed-political-model camp see
> > transhuman-ism.
> >
> > Funny things, words.
>
> Yes, how is it, again, that you can claim that humanism is not an
> existing failed political model?

I wasn't.

Humanism in the sense of individual creed for dealing with people that leads
to general sets of prescriptions when filtered through whatever political
model you're using. But not a political model itself. I wasn't performing a
left side = right side sort of of paragraph there.

Reason
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