From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 13:37:37 MDT
"natashavita@earthlink.net" wrote:
>
> If extropian movement became infected, transhumanity would be infected. Actively doing damage control on intentional polluting of extropic memes is long range planning.
Indeed. One of my interesting words of the week is "coppicing".
It refers to the process of deliberate pruning (e.g. of willow trees) which
would appear positively _savage_ to a naive onlooker. *Surely* you must be
trying to *kill* that poor defenseless tree!
But no, it's _stewardship_, and it's how you get a ready supply of springy
tough willow wands and such, because coppicing promotes such growth.
There's a parable here <irony>, but I'm much too urbane and sophisticated to
do more than point that out </irony>.
--
butler a t comp - lib . o r g
I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
Sometimes I forget.
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