From: Joseph 1 (neohuman@goldenfuture.net)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 18:50:08 MDT
THANK YOU for such a spirit. Count me in!
Feel free to email me off-list: neohuman@goldenfuture.net.
Joseph
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Mike Lorrey
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:30 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Luddites on the loose...
>
>
> Well, I'm rather exasperated with the fact that while these groups (like
> the Center for Genetics and Society) are continuing to raise money, even
> within the ranks of the techno-elite, all that occurs on our side is
> mail list discussion and little else. Pro-Act is stillborn, as far as I
> can see, and the wishy-washiness seen on this list and elsewhere, the
> damnation of extremism and vehement advocacy of any kind (recall that
> Eva Peron said, "If not for extremists, nothing would ever get done.")
> seen on this list, and the sort of detente rapport building strategy
> being advocated by the current staff of Pro-Act demonstrates to me that
> there is a need for a group willing to take action at all levels for our
> agenda. Since my rants a few weeks ago about a lack of activity at
> Pro-Act there has been a stunning silence toward my repeated offers to
> do fundraising for Pro-Act.
>
> As a result, I am announcing that I would like to recruit some
> volunteers to form an exploratory committee to launch the Center for
> Transhuman Development, which will be a political action/grassroots
> organizing advocacy group to represent the Transhumanist agenda.
>
> There are two sorts of people we want: People willing to dedicate a
> significant portion of their time or a significant amount of money. We
> will be following a 'lead, follow, or get out of the way' attitude. If
> this announcement is met with a similar silence from the transhumanist
> community, I will thereby declare the surrender of the transhumanist
> movement to the forces of luddism and get the argument over with once
> and for all.
>
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