From: Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
Date: Sun Jan 11 1998 - 10:39:28 MST
>Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
>But then you have your leftist tree hugging ecofreaks who a) look at
>technological
>progress as the death of the environment, and b) look with distain on an
>increased
>ability of people to reproduce, since they all are still owned by the
>malthusian
>meme, and c) look at the idea of cloning as being a threat to individual
>rights.
Whoops, I stand corrected! I don't know how I missed this, but yes there
is a major movement on the Left, through Environmentalism et. al., to fight
against technology. Now I see why "Religious Right" and "Luddite Left" fit
together so well. As with most things, the Truth(TM) is somewhere
inbetween.
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