Re: Suggestion: Extropian Country

CountZero (count_zero@bigfoot.com)
Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:37:30 -0600


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Agreed, if we can reach "critical Mass" the need for a ghetto (which is
what it would likely turn out to be) becomes superfluous.

At 11:30 PM 2/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 02:01 PM 2/16/98, Prof. Gomes <profgomes@geocities.com> wrote:
>>We could think in stablishing an extropian country...
>>
>>We'll need, among other things:
>>
>>1. some extropian billionaires to initial finnancial support.
>
>That makes it easy! (I'm being ironic for those who don't know.:)
>
>>2. chose a small site in, f.ex., Africa, which we could buy... ( They need
>>money and we need a place...).
>
>I don't like crowds. Imagine lots of protechs in one place and a neoLuddite
>with a large bomb...
>
>But seriously, we might exhaust valuable effort in trying to attain such a
>state. Much better/cheaper to focus on recruiting new people to our
>ranks AND developing better tech/science/philosophy/art in the
>interim. Don't (all of) you agree?
>
>Daniel Ust
>
Think of it as evolutio in action.
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