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