> Last night I thought of a phrase which struck me as being very Extropian.
>
> "Question Tradition"
>
> I think that's a lot of what we're doing, as Extropians. We are questioning
> tradition. We question the tradition of death, we question the tradition of
> coercion, we question the tradition of ignorance and servility, we question
> the traditional belief systems and paradigms, we question the tradition of
> blind obedience to Authority, and we question all other entropic traditions.
Yes, and this is good, but the questioning has some way to go before one
can safely say it is even-handed: transhumanists and Extropians have a
few sacred cows of their own, and questioning these areas of dogma gets
short shrift. We all know what they are. To be consistent in our hard
questioning may be too much to stomach, but I feel that one should at the
very least be open about it and declare certain areas as axiomatic, rather
than seeking to give weak justifications. We owe it to ourselves.
Rich.
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