Re: Anders response to "Politics of Transhumanism"

From: Mark Walker (mdwalker@quickclic.net)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 15:03:14 MST


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Daniel Crocker" <lee@piclab.com>

> (I'm not sure about this attribution:
> Forrest Bishop" <forrestb@ix.netcom.com> ?)
>
> >> Scholarly consensus enables supreme control of the general will
> >> in preparing for submission to the shared aspirations of a
> >> participatory global security landscape. Facilitation of
> >> cooperation rests on a solid foundation of collective strength
> >> under the generous, charismatic leadership of esteemed public
> >> policy savants in order to actualize the infrastructure of a
> >> global governance regime.
>
> Is that paragraph really something said by a thinking human
> being? It reads like computer-generated prose fed by a database
> of old issues of /Social Text/ or something. If this is typical
> of the output of a certain organization, I see no reason to
> take that organization seriously.
>
I think more than one person here has missed F.B.'s none too Swift attempt
at parody of J. Hughes' position and/or writing style. His humor, at least,
seems atomic scale.:)



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