From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 11:59:57 MST
Hello everyone,
I was simply checking me email this morning and I came across this
thread (not copied to extropians list, but on the wta-talk list).
Please stop cross posting out of context. Please stop labeling
extropians "extrops" as anti-socialist. Please stop trying to
undermine the very elements of transhumanism by continuing to bicker
back and forth about who is or is not a socialist, a libertarian, a
democrat, a republican or a Green Party affiliate.
Please stop trying to separate out "groups" of transhumanists for
positioning yourselves as better than another group.
Please stop trying to bring extropians down because you think that
extropians "hate" socialists.
Please stop taking one person and holding him or her up as the voice
of any one organization.
Everyone should be fed up with this continued animosity between one
band of transhumanists against other transhumanists. If not, you are
really not transhumanist, but using the philosophy to promote your
agenda at the stake of someone else.
The mere fact that we are not striving to improve the human condition
is good enough to calm anyone's irritability toward another person
who has a dissimilar view on ideology. Who cares if you vote for
lowering taxes and she votes for raising them. In another instance
she could vote for more teachers and better education and you could
vote against it because it runs counter to another issue you hold in
higher regard.
If WTA wants to be a political organization, please do so, but do not
use politics to make another organization appear wrong. This is
playing a politics rather than creating a win/win scenario where we
can communicate with respect and consideration for each other. If
WTA, like ExI, is an global transhumanist organization with members
from many different ideological experiences, religious backgrounds,
governmental policies, social and cultural imprinting, then the
bigger issue is how do we work it out and design the architecture for
transhumanist values to meet the needs of everyone - at least to an
extent that each and every person is an individual and his and her
views are accepted.
The very fact that we are for superlongevity, we are for the human
machine interface, we are for preparing for the Singularity, we are
for space exploration, we are for human and transhumanist dignity, we
are for enhancing our bodies and our minds, we are for the values of
transhumanism should allow us at least an ounce of intelligence to
get beyond this stage in our growth which is ultimately unproductive
and may cause greater damage to us in the long run than we realize at
this very moment.
I want us to work together. Please respect my wishes, as I am not
alone and I truly think we can make a better worldwide platform for
transhumanist views if we do.
Thank you,
Natasha Vita-More
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