From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 10:49:20 MST
--- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:58:44PM -0800, Cory
> Przybyla wrote:
> > What are recommendations for the best way to
> spread
> > transhuman memes to the more resistant population,
> > which also seems to be in the vast majority?
>
> The key is making the memes thinkable. If you were
> promoting (say) socialism, environmentalism or
> conservatism you would find it far easier, since
> these are
> memes that belong to the "playing field" of people.
> They
> might disagree vehemently, but these ideas are part
> of the
> accepted discourse. Transhumanism isn't part of it,
> and
> hence will not be easy to spread or get people to
> take
> seriously. Even if many people know about an idea it
> will
> not be part of "real" discussions - a lot of people
> know
> about the Raelians and their views, but they are not
> taken
> seriously.
>
> The key is not to try to spread the meme widely,
> since
> that will mainly fail to convince people in the
> current
> situation. Instead it is to enlarge the playing
> field to
> include transhumanism as one view it is possible to
> have.
> That requires another strategy.
Would it be accurate to say that one could achieve
this
by explaining why one thinks, starting from that which
both the explainer and most people one is explaining
things to agree is true, one concludes that the
transhumanist futures are possible and desirable? (As
you gave an example of re: showing the evidence in the
media.)
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