From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 15:38:33 MST
On Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:01 PM natashavita@earthlink.net wrote:
> I'm not the best person to ask this of. I merely stated that
> the police have helped me and I was damn glad that I
> called 911.
I hope, whatever happened to you, the need won't arise again.
> I don't think it is necessarily productive to complain about
> what is occurring, but to try to work with the system and
> design one's life so that as much of any system that is
> distasteful is eliminated.
I don't disagree. I humbly offer free market anarchism as this system.
> I'm more interested in dealing with other aspect of extropic
> thinking in regards to transhumanism. I find that most of the
> political posts on this list are too full of complaining and
> disregard than creative problem solving, or specific
> accomplishments that actually deal with the world's
> problems.
I don't feel it's so much that -- disregard for creative solutions -- as
that changing the political system is extremely hard to do. No matter
how creative your solution is in politics, it takes time to convince
enough people to either be for it or not stand against it, since
politics operates differently than other systems.
This is one reason I hope space settlement will take off: so that
social/political experimentation can take place in space.
Also, creativity is sometimes sparked, I've found, by people who are not
pleased with the way things are. If someone's comfortable, e.g., with a
56K internet connection, chances are she is not going to looking for
ways to increase bandwidth. I'm not saying this is the optimal way to
prime the creative pump, but for the great mass of humanity it seems to
be why people change: they become uncomfortable enough. I'd like to see
more proactive than reactive creativity too...
Cheers!
Dan
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"You wanna get high?" -- Towelie from "South Park"
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