From: Mike Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 15:39:25 MST
Jason Joel Thompson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>
> > It may not be official policy, but in the beginning Extropians were
> > generally represented and talked about as being Libertarians. There are
> > hundreds of articles and references on the web that still refer to
> > Extropians as Libertarians. These can be found with any search engine
> such
> > as <http://www.google.com/search?q=extropians+and+libertarian>.
>
> And further, if Extropians -aren't- Libertarians, how exactly are they
> different from Transhumans in general?
Ah, well, there are anarchists in general, as well as just individualists, and
small 'l' libertarians (as opposed to LP big L Libertarians). Transhumans in
general tend to not mind ideas of collective domination of the individual in
one or more areas for one or more reasons. A Borg is a transhuman, but not an
extropic transhuman. Get it?
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