From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 04:44:13 MDT
messr More and Broderick:
>
> At 03:58 PM 7/10/2002 +1000, Damien wrote:
>
> >I can't help noting that there's a kind of entertaining irony in the
> >positive/negative opposition between
> >
> >MORE
> >
> >and
> >
> >MORENO
MORE like MORON E?
> >
> >no? :)
>
> I love it!
>
> I would have preferred to actually have a reasonable
> discussion with the fellow. He's supposed to be an
> eminent bioethicist, so surely he should be
> capable of constructing a real, genuine, actual argument. I had the
> impression that he is utterly clueless about cryonics and about many
> relevant technologies and trends.
<snip>
Yep.
- but - I hate to admit it .....like it or not........
"I believe that life has a course and a shape" and "the fact that life has
an appropriate beginning, middle and end" are statements that will resonate
with a huge number of people who have invested a lot of emotional capital in
coming to grips with assumed mortality.
The real content of the one-liners is effectively nil to anyone who applies
more than about 5msec thought, but in that format you don't have that
luxury. It's Noam Chomsky's "hell of the 10 sec newsybite" out there and you
have to live with it.
Moreno obviously knows how to pull strings, shallow mainstream and
otherwise. The striking difference between the TV/personal and textual
represention of Moreno proves it. What you see is what he wants you to get.
In the interview the words are only a small part of the communication that
occurred. Sad, but I would suggest that equivalent one liners have to be
devised, because this is just the tip of the iceberg in a PR sense for the
>H/tech aware; The level of ignorance is immense. It's Galileo vs the Church
all over again.
Unlike Zero Powers I believe that at this stage of the game any publicity is
good publicity. Good and bad, people will go to alcor.com, get googled and
jeeves'd to >H sites and learn and talk with each other around the coffee
machine. An issue awareness base will be created which is better than
nothing, IMO. Quality will come later as the debate matures. It's a dirty
job but.....as 'they' say.
It was great to see someone get into the ring and fight the good fight, in
real time. The 250 years is a bit long to wait for a re-match though!
cheers,
Colin
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