From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 12:06:16 MDT
> Max More:
> The interesting question is: Why do some people
> respond that way, and what can we do about it?
> (And is it worth doing what it would take to dispel
> that response?)
In example:
Extropians - Category: Ideas -
California-based nonprofit *mini-cult* of *fewer* than 500
members built on the belief that future technologies
will overcome problems that today seem insoluble.
Immortality through technology is a central tenet
of Extropianism: fervent hopes for the future include
cryogenics, time travel, and uploading one's
consciousness to a computer ................
http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/09/2211249
So, Extropianism is a mini-cult because extropians are
fewer than 500. What about 5,000 extropians? A cult?
A church? And what about 50,000 extropians? Religion?
Culture? Civilization?
- S.
"El sueño de la razón produce monstruos."
-- Francisco de Goya
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