Re: ECONOMICS: Reality bites

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 15:33:26 MDT


--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> The interesting thing about this vis-a-vis the
> extropian/transhumanist
> perspective is the lack-of-vision as to where we might go, what we
> might do, and what we can be.
>
> Borrowing from Max's book -- we need more "*onward*".
>
> Screw libertarianism -- lets have more onwardism.
>
> (I'll note as an aside [which will probably bring down the wrath of
> the libertarians upon my head] that "strict" libertarianism in the
> sense of "I want my gun, my beer and my freedom to watch Monday
> night football 48 hours a day" *isn't* a particularly extropic
> or even transhumanist vector.)
>
> Being extropic or transhumanistic actually requires hard work.
> Where in the libertarian agenda is there a requirement to do
> such work (other than work which eliminates antiquated bipolar
> political parties)?

Do It Yourself is a central requirement of libertarianism, and is
highly extropic. Do It Yourself with Basement Nanotech, Cloning,
Cryonics, and Beowulf Clustering, along with perimeter defense systems
(both physical and network level) and Personal Space Travel. What could
be more extropic (and at the same time libertarian) than that?

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