From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 09:05:09 MST
In a message dated 2/4/2003 1:54:04 AM Central Standard Time,
maxmcorp@worldonline.dk writes: I must say that I cannot really see much
point of being on the list anymore either. It has allways had political
undertones, but now it's so bad that it ought to be renamed to
washington@extropy.org.
Max,
I don't know how big an archive you have or if you can go back and
reread what has been said for the past two or three months. But, my
impression is that you (plural) are not complaining about there being
political expression on the Extropy list, you are complaining that when you
express yourself politically there are those that refute your position. I
don't know if you agree or not but that is my definite impression of what the
European contingent is saying.
As to what is or is not Extropian, I don't know how you separate the
technical or scientific aspects from the cultural or political effects. In
my mind both will be proceeding simultaneously. Not only that, but the
future will proceed from the present as others have pointed out. At the
extreme there are forces loose in our world society that would not only kill
scientific progress but also roll back many of the gains that we have made.
I clearly remember as a boy during the beginning of WW2 how the adults
characterized the effect Hitler was having in Europe, "The lights are going
out all over Europe." We were proceeding backwards into savagery.
Under those circumstances we would have no chance at all for
scientific progress -- AI, Nanotechnology, Immortality, Art all gone and
forgotten.
Ron h.
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