From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 15:32:22 MDT
So, how do you counter their arguments onces you are through
labelling and pigeon-holing them?
- samantha
Greg Burch wrote:
> Well, looks like what I expected would happen: The flavor of this
> website, its rhetoric and the educational and institutional backgrounds
> of the people involved are all left-liberal "Guardian", using the
> terminology I employed in my presentation at Extro5, but the issues are
> presented in clear Green "Romanticist" terms, with a strong invitation
> to making a united front with the traditionally religious, or
> "Magicalists", again, using terms I employed in my talk.
>
> This is the Iron Triangle I described, taking shape before our eyes: A
> Guardian-Romanticist-Magicalist alliance, with an explicit goal of
> throttling progress.
>
> Greg Burch, Vice-President, Extropy Institute
> http://www.gregburch.net
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
>>[mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org] On Behalf Of J. Hughes
>>Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 1:44 PM
>>To: Transhumantech
>>Cc: Wta-Talk; Extropians
>>Subject: BioLuddites publish primer on Enhancement Wars
>>
>>
>>
>>The Center for Genetics and Society are a new bioLuddite
>>organization specifically focused on raising the alarm about
>>human genetic enhancement, i.e. they are our specific
>>political opposite. This is the primer they have pulled together:
>>
>>
> http://www.genetics-and-society.org/resources/cgs/newtechs.pdf
>
> ----------------------------
> James J. Hughes Ph.D.
> Secretary, World Transhumanist Association jhughes@changesurfer.com
> www.transhumanism.org
> PO Box 128, Wilington CT 06279
>
>
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