From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2003 - 13:55:30 MST
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:04:31AM -0800, Ian Reilly wrote:
> someone wondered if
> " we can come up with a viable plan to mobilize
> against this FukuKass mindset" Yes - in fact there is one - GET RID of BUSH
> & FUKU KASS GO WITH HIM
Let's imagine that the Bush government falls from power in some drastic
scandal. Does that mean our opposition loses? They lose a very good
commanding height - the ability to tell the president what they think
about bioethics. But that is just a setback, it is not the loss of the
war. Remember that Al Gore has publicly lauded Rifkin, and similar
bioconservative ideas exist of all political colors. Whatever government
appears, there will be representatives of the FukuKass mindset there.
They might have different biases and ways of explaining why their views
are reasonable given the current political narrative, but they are from
our perspective essentially equivalent.
What we need is to get some people in roughly the same situation as
these representatives. Not necessarily to replace them, but at least get
parity. That way our memes can also be heard, and the debate between the
positions would be a debate rather than a political/philosophical
walk-over. How do we get people to the commanding heights? Good, solid
reputations. Publications. Networking. Seeking out allies within the
existing movements, ideological discourses, lobbyist and pundit networks
etc.
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