From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 19:33:50 MDT
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
> 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?
Yes, but, sometimes Do It Yourself (akin to Be Yourself) is the worst advice
you can give somebody who is Libertarian (i.e., they need better PR, and
they need to behave more scrupulously so as not to give the Big Bad Press a
stick to hit them with):
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html
http://www.dawsonspeek.com/archives/000506.php
Speaking as someone who is not a capital "L" Libertarian, the perception of
Libertarians from my home planet is that there is a great "nut" factor
there. This may indeed be unfair, but that is the perception.
Olga
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