From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 02:00:48 MDT
At 11:50 PM 5/4/02 -0700, Hal wrote:
>The NY Times has a review of Fukuyama's book Our Posthuman Future
>at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/books/review/05MCGINNT.html
>I was disappointed.
Yeah:
`...there have always been doubts about whether the human soul thrives best
in the oppressively technological world we have created for ourselves,'
Professor McGinn tells us.
Any ox moronic enough to express such an oxymoronic sentiment by keying it
*on a computer* and posting it *on the internet* (even secondhand via the
NYT) should immediately cease such absurd inconsistency and abandon the
vile machines of tyranny. Oh, and keep well clear of dentists, antibiotics,
air travel and soap.
`Freedom unconstrained by a substantive conception of that which makes life
worthwhile is a recipe for meaninglessness.'
Of course, and plenty of us have been beavering away (sorry, I think that
might have another meaning in the USA) for some time now, but I don't
recall getting any invitations from Dr McGinn to address his seminars, and
I doubt Max gets any either.
`Above all, we need to be thinking about all this now, not when the streets
are crowded with mutants and
supermen and we wonder where we went wrong.'
Ah yes, those loathsome mutants and supermen--we know in advance that
they're *wrong*.
What century was this again?
Damien Broderick
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