From: Russell Whitaker (whitaker@extropia.corp.sgi.com)
Date: Fri Aug 23 1996 - 16:38:28 MDT
On Aug 22, 12:23am, Chris Hind wrote this (quoted with ">"):
[SNIP]
> So lets convince hotwired to put up one last post to notify users that the
> discussion is to be continued on alt.extropians. The public exploitation of
> extropian principles should be used to spread the memes due to it being a
> VERY SUCCESSFUL strategy which has been used quite successfully by the great
> religions of the world as "Witnessing" but extropians aren't NEARLY as
> annoying and allow people to come to them rather then them coming to the
> people. If we study memes and copy their replication patterns and methods,
> with the rationality and logic extropians profess, we may under 5 years
> annihalate religion from the face of the planet!!
You are kidding, aren't you? 5 years?
Besides which, seen from my own extropian perspective, it's
unnecessarily bellicose to talk of annihilation of competing
memesets. Better to speak of ours "outcompeting" theirs.
> I have also seen great
> interest in the IRC channels expecially among the technically-minded.
>-- End of quoted excerpt from Chris Hind
Even the "technically-minded" on the IRC channels have the
attention span of goldfish. Sorry, this is just a reaction to
my experience on the HotWired Chat today, where I logged in
expecting high-quality interaction related to the More/Borsook
debate, and instead saw 'wannafuck?' messages aimed at the
few women in the room.
Grumble.
-- "Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee to truth, then inquire..." - Nietzsche Russell Earl Whitaker whitaker@sgi.com Webmaster, Silicon Junction Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA =============================================================== http://reality.sgi.com/whitaker
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