From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 1998 - 19:20:32 MST
So assume you could get together the fundage for something like
this- how would you structure it to allow the wide ranging
views of Extropians to be satisfied? Could you come up with
some kind of self-organizing and very effective structure, or
would you simply hold a vote of the ExI members and create
a Director and a heirarchy?
Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Brian Atkins wrote:
> >
> > > I think it might be nice to have an Extropian organization that
> > > would perform functions similiar to the ACLU. i.e. fighting
> > > things that we think need to be fought. It could double as
> > > a lobbying organization.
> > >
> > > I see posts on this list all the time about how various
> > > governments pass stupid laws and otherwise trample on things
> > > that we like or want- why not try and fund our own organization
> > > for stopping these problems?
> >
> > This is an intriguing idea. I wonder if the priorities of this
> > organization would be conspicuously different from others that already
> > exist. Is there an as yet unoccupied niche for a specifically extropian
> > form of political activism? I'd love to see what it would look like.
> >
>
> An organization that is protechnology but not pro-monopolist, pro-space
> but not anti-environment, pro-individual rights (ALL of them, not just
> the ones groups like the ACLU and others pick and choose from) but not
> pro-supremacist, probusiness, but not pro-mercantilist.
>
> --
> TANSTAAFL!!!
> Michael Lorrey
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