In a message dated 2/6/00 4:11:50 PM Central Standard Time, CurtAdams@aol.com
writes:
> Greg, I think your piece has too many claims and not enough support. I
agree
> with almost everything you say, but I think somebody with no strong
opinion
> on Rifkin or cloning would just blip over it. Opponents of Rifkin will
find
> little useful new information - they can already assert Rifkin's flaws.
I'd love to have the time and resources to engage in a well-researched
fact-based agitprop campaign against the Rifkinites, but I don't. Instead,
my only goal in the letter I sent to the Times was to 1) let the reader
unaware of Rifkin's identity (and there will be many) know that he has a
stake in the extreme positions he takes, 2) that he has been extreme for a
long time and 3) that the rhetoric of his piece hides the logic of
totalitarianism. In the format of a "letter to the editor", as you point
out, there's space for little else.
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
Attorney ::: Vice President, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide
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"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know
enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another
question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."
-- Desmond Morris
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