Re: Present Dangers to Transhumanism

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 21:51:23 MST


KPJ wrote:
>
> It appears as if <retroman@mail.turbont.net> on Sat, 28 Aug 1999 wrote:
>
> |The proper terms for the 'right' and 'left' in transhumanist thought are
> |'extropic' and 'borganist', respectively...
> |
> |Mike Lorrey
>
> Many humans define as Nazi Germany ``right'' on their traditional left-right
> politicometers. I don't find national socialists very extropic, though.

The idea of saying a socialist belongs on the right hand end of any
scale is incomprehensible to me. Shows the sort of newspeak that some
people will go to to avoid guilt by association.

Mike Lorrey



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