From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Mon Jan 05 1998 - 12:01:03 MST
> but just how this would be an advance for extropianism as a
> movement is unclear to me, unless we regard every scientific and
> technological development, as well as every cultural and political
> development in the direction of greater freedom and diversity, as an
> advance for extropianism as a movement. Does extropianism just mean
> civilization, then?
If it didn't, we'd have to correct it, wouldn't we? After all, it
is not so much the details of the principles themselves but the
underlying theme of civilized achievement that lead to them which
is our goal. Max's primary contribution was not so much defining
new goals, but in recognizing all the necessary conditions of the
goal of civilization, and disabusing us of popular ideas that turn
out to be contrary to that goal.
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