From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Wed Sep 01 1999 - 21:44:18 MDT
> The Extropian Principles is a pragmatic document, advocating
> a willingness to change and evolve and explicilty eschewing
> ideological commitments. When push comes to shove, wouldn't
> we all rather be pragmatists than worm food?
Frankly, no. I want to live forever precisely /because/ there
are wonderful things like food, sex, art, philosophy, freedom.
If I could achieve immortality by becoming a slave providing
those things for someone else, I wouldn't bother.
I am not such a hard-liner about specific freedoms and specific
political structures of the moment--hell, I can't even define
what "libertarian" is in a any philosophically rigorous way
(and neither can anyone else, despite what Randians tell you).
If other systems will get me the kind of life I want, I'll
certainly entertain them (though current evidence suggests
otherwise). But I do know that I want more than mere
continuation of my existence; I want /life/ in every sense of
the word. If that's an "ideological commitment", then sobeit.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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