From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 11:38:51 MDT
> (Spudboy100@aol.com <Spudboy100@aol.com>):
>
> To answer your question, we need to be able to promote anything
> that assists in the survival of humanity and democracy; not necessarily
> in that order. Usually conversations ought to deal with the
> implementation, of new technology, scientific understandings, economics,
> government policy and the like. This is what I see happening on the
> list most of the time.
Since when is democracy an Extropian principle, or even a worthy goal?
Extropy seeks free and open society; if something like democracy
supports that goal, then it might be useful. But if it doesn't--and
personally, I think democracy actively opposes that goal--then to hell
with it. We can, and should, do better.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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