From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 09:42:03 MDT
To M. Dickey, J. Clark and Ron h:
I refuse talking or discussing with anyone of you any of your arguments,
especially those of Michael Dickey, in detail. It would be a complete waste
of time for both sides. Our views are not compatible. I only want to remind
you from time to time that your violent world view still looks disgusting to
a freelancing transhuman - but not necessarily *extropian* - guest here on
this list who thinks the whole entropic side effect and expenditure of
blowing away heat and sweat into the universe in the process of bringing up
some non-violent arguments that the patriots here finally do not appreciate
anyway, is in itself a pretty unextropian process of communication. We will
never come together and I can easily live with this prospect :-)
One word to Ron h: I don't feel being a loser at all. But confronted with
the concentrated winner attitude here on the list, I feel sympathy for the
losers and remember the artistic concept of "being allowed to fail" without
being despised.
Maybe I am not as brilliant as any one of you followers of violent fashion
are. Maybe your exorbitantly gifted minds are already too close to mind
blowing ideas all the time to understand my non-brilliant message. Anyway,
what I was basically trying to communicate to you was this:
If in June 2003 you are still on the same level as your fellow republican US
politicians while dealing with ultra conservative monkey business like
territorial pissings with funnily talking Arabs who stubbornly deny wearing
blue jeans and display this strange effeminate outfit while unexpectedly
rejecting the American way of life altogether, could it be that your
Pentagon- and-White-House-dominated thinking in union with adrenalin-aided
visualisations of smashing those Middle Eastern bastards which amplifies the
already existing territorial bullshit in your brain and - in connection with
an artificially produced feeling of helplessness and lack of security -
evokes a cry for a Rumsfeldian solution and thus leads to an endlessly
intensified vicious circle of astonishingly flexible ancient lizard brain
circuits that spread the message towards the cortex to merely defend
American borders between Kairo and Teheran and boosts
testosterone-contaminated mammal behaviour which finally leads to a general
regress of brain quality as well, are a bit too one-dimensional to be called
transhuman - or extropian, if you like?
Grammatical help: the nouns that "one-dimensional" refers to, are "thinking"
and "visualisations". Sorry for my bad English. I wish I could write in
German.
Just an impression and not really a question from
humania
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