From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 09:39:27 MDT
Waldemar Ingdahl wrote:
>
> Houston we've most definitively got a problem.
>
> A philosophical problem, that cuts much, much deeper than "political views",
> and I think it is down to the core- and that makes transhumanism very much
> weaker than it should be.
>
> Today transhumanism should be out of the basement but it isn't.
>
> I've given the list my views and a scetch on remedies, a bit long, but these
> things aren't discussed in a 1K mail.
>
> Rather I think that a more intellectual approach is needed, and a move away
> from activism.
>
> Views?
I can't dissagree more. All that Extropy has been to date is an intellectual
exercise by some professional scholars and their armchair adherents. Our
positions get pummelled in the media without opposition by any extropian
activists whatsoever. There is no extropian activist organization, no
fundraising mechanism. We could not possibly be any farther from activism than
we are now.
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