From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 04:00:58 MDT
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 12:50:38 -0700, Olga Bourlin <fauxever@sprynet.com>
wrote:
> All right, Lee, who in the Bush administration do you consider to be
> (even a
> little bit) extropian? Rumsfeld? Rice? Powell? Cheney? Ashcroft? DeLay?
Jumping in:
Rice. A little bit. Maybe. She was, as you probably know, highly placed at
Stanford for a bit.
> Neither Bush's I.Q. nor the respective I.Q.s of members of his
> administration worry me as much as the fact that *all* those combined
> I.Q.s
> cannot seem to leap over the wall of faith.
I don't have any direct knowledge of C. Rice Godding about. Have you?
On a Personal Fear scale of, let's say, 0 is "No kidding, seeing a live
spider scares me into cardiac arrest" and 10 is "No kidding,
interdimensional demons are sucking my brain out with a straw right this
very instant and I am powerless to stop them", I'd say "Xtian theocracy in
America at the _Handmaid's Tale_ level" is about a 3 or 4 and "militant
Islamism fomenting a global culture war to impose global Sharia" is at
least a 6. Doesn't mean I have my eyes closed.
I do believe that I can have a much more direct influence in forestalling
or correcting an American Xtian theocracy than I can in forestalling any
other variety of theocracy that comes to mind.
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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