From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 08:25:53 MDT
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:04:45AM -0400, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> It used to be a standard Extropian belief that the left-right spectrum was
> totally inadequate to properly describe modern or transhuman politics. I
Heh, you're right. Because we were all libertarians and Libertarians hate the
spectrum because they don't fit on it.
I've drifted left because I actually have drifted left. Although I usually
call that "being more liberal than libertarian", belying my own separation of
the terms. :) But others have identified with the right, I think. I hope
that doesn't mean there's a lot of religious pro-lifers on the list.
> find it regressive that we are falling more and more into these old-style
> political divisions on this list. We used to be in more agreement on some
> issues and have more diversity in others. Nowadays, it seems like were are
> stereotyping into two opposing camps and straying further and further from
> the topics of the future.
Well, the war didn't help; that polarized people a lot. I think it may also
be a function of the people; the sharper left/right debates seem to come
mostly from people I think of as newer to the list, vs. the people who've been
here since 1993.
-xx- Damien X-)
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