Re: Extropians: The Un-<that 'c' word>

Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@pobox.com)
Wed, 02 Jul 1997 19:20:04 -0700


Anton Sherwood writes:
> Good point. Is our spiral any more cultish than the Chrysler star?

Or the old Procter and Gamble "moon and stars" logo, which they
stopped putting on their products (but, I think, still use internally)
after a little memestorm among US religious fundamentalists about
its being a "symbol of Satan". This happened sometime in the middle
1980s.

One of the points at issue was the thirteen stars in the logo, and
none of the disgruntled people in this case believed Procter and
Gamble's official explanation that when the logo was originally
designed, the thirteen stars were put in there as a patriotic
gesture symbolizing the thirteen founding states of the United
States.

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Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ expectation foils perception -pcd