Re: weapons of mass panic

From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 19:51:01 MST

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    In a message dated 2/28/2003 7:29:08 PM Central Standard Time,
    Spudboy100@aol.com writes: Realistically, when humanity gets souped-up
    technically, so it cam live out at the moons of Jupiter, we will have a
    different political-economic-religious(?) pattern in place.

    Mitch,
           I wonder about that. What I see present on the Extropy list tells me
    that when we get that souped up technically we will be no more astute
    political-economic-religious than we are today.
           I was reading today a couple of speeches given by George Washington.
    Please remember that Mr. Washington had only two or possibly three years of
    schooling and in addition was not considered to be anywhere near the
    intellectual class of Franklin, Jefferson or Adams. It was obvious that he
    had a level of education in philosophy and public affairs far beyond even our
    educated citizens of today. IMHO we have a far better technical education
    than Mr. Washington had but we have not spent nearly as much time considering
    the eternal verities as he had.
           Let me offer you a homely example. We spend vast numbers of email
    discussing Transhumanism and ways of getting to that state. Yet, the average
    college graduate that I rub elbows are no where near maximizing their
    personal development. In other words I see a few scientists working on
    Extropy or Transhumanism, I hear a lot of speculation but I see little effort
    expended on goals that are actually attainable.
           Let me offer you another homely example. There is a man named Warren
    Buffet that out of his own mind earns the kind of money that would really
    boost our goals assuming of course that we personally possessed that kind of
    wealth. In addition we would be improving our society as a main feature of
    the Buffet method is to encourage worthy corporations (in humanistic terms)
    by investing in them. Yet not only don't the people on this list not know
    how Mr. Buffet does what he does I have querried 3 or 4 of my accounting
    instructors (after they had discussed how to invest wisely) about Mr. Buffet
    -- they hadn't a clue.
    Ron h.



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