RE: Memes.org: Transhumanism: The New Master Race?

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jan 04 2003 - 22:22:29 MST


Natasha wrote

> Regarding Tihamer Toth-Fejel and others who write
> about transhumanity as being aligned to racism, all
> I have to say is -- Stop it in its germination.

and I responded

> It would be pretty crazy to suppose that transhumanism
> or transhumanity could be aligned with racism! I have
> no idea how such a thought could enter anyone's head.

An off-line correspondent has brought to my attention
that the term "aligned" here is causing confusion.
I explained that to me, two doctrines are "aligned"
when they have a common denominator, or are necessarily
allied in some way. He retorted that

   "One can choose align oneself with the X in order to
   achieve some goal, then later shift allegiances and
   align instead with Y or anti-X."

I might add to his interpretation that an individual could
easily be allied (or aligned) to two mutually incompatible
doctrines. For example, we might find it contradictory for
someone to espouse both Extropy and racism, but in the wide
world no doubt someone will.

As for "transhumanism", as I explained before, it is an
effort doomed before it starts to attempt to be as exclusive
as Extropianism is.

Lee

> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, but it
> wouldn't make sense to suppose that by *definition*
> Christians, drug-addicts, racists, child-molesters,
> socialists, Scientologists, thieves, Nazis, lunatics,
> or even advertising executives couldn't be transhuman
> or transhumanists. Why couldn't they be?
>
> Lee



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