RE: Norman Spinrad on THE SPIKE

From: Al Billings (memoria@memoria.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 19:25:25 MDT


 Strange. I found his criticisms spot on. People are in denial here if
they don't see that Extropian looks rather odd, cult like and even new
agey to outsiders. There's a lot of groupthink that goes on here.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
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> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 10:59 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Norman Spinrad on THE SPIKE
>
>
> In a message dated 6/4/2001 12:54:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jonkc@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
> << I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Spinrad had other foolish
> things to say too
> but I lost
> interest and stopped reading. Out of 4 stars I give the
> review one and a
> half stars.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net >>
> He did, in his ignorance, compare those who are interested in
> aspects of The
> Spike as similar to scientologists. No Zemu masters or 7th
> level Thetans
> here, no "working the cans", a different scope, altogether. I
> suspect that
> people like Spinrad, though talented, have ceased to monitor
> science and
> technology, for many years.
>
> Mitch
>



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