From: Bill Douglass (douglassbill@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 08:21:58 MDT
Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
>
>Mike Lorrey wrote,
> > Nationalism is a disease of the mind that allows the victim to
> > ignore all signs that one's nation may be somehow in error (I'm
> > sure some are thinking about the irony of me saying this).
>
>Yes, I was thinking that.... But actually a more important point for
>transhumanists is the possibility that life-extension might make us outlive
>some countries. We may need longer term planning for the far future.
There are already people who have outlived countries. Very elderly
Russians, for example, outlived the Soviet Union.
Bill
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