Re: How Extropians Live Their Lives was: Optimism

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 00:32:37 MDT

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    At 05:16 PM 7/20/03 -0700, Damien Sullivan wrote:

    >As I said years ago, worrying about selling transhumanism or extropianism
    >might seem premature when humanism and the Enlightenment aren't exactly
    >secure.

    Oy vey, ain't it the truth. The other night on the fairly sophistical
    Australian SBS TV news, the worldly and polyglot announcer informed us
    blandly that NASA had just discovered a nearby star with a Jupiter gas
    giant in a circular orbit, a discovery, she told us, of immense
    astrological significance.

    Damien Broderick



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