From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Thu May 13 1999 - 12:29:35 MDT
From: jonwill <jonwill@erols.com>
>Maybe Humanity's lack of a guiding philosophy has contributed to the fact that
>more than 800 million people are malnourished, large segments of the population
>continue to suffer from preventable diseases, and over 30 million people will
>die each year from starvation or preventable diseases. Additionally, plant and
>animal extinction, deforestation, soil erosion, ozone depletion, and other major
>environmental problems are occurring.
No sweat. Just upload the whole bunch and use them for virtual fuel.
See
>http://www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/what-b.html
Too many facts and figures. Not enough imagination.
>Without a goal, happenstance determines a traveler's destination. Instead of
>leaving its fate up to chance, Humanity should select its own destination for
>its journey through time. Humanity as a whole should have a guiding philosophy.
But "humanity" can't select a destination. Only in-duh-viduals can do that.
>Cheers,
>Jon
>http://www.erols.com/jonwill/
(Nice web pages, but rather utopian.)
Cheers,
--J. R.
CEE CEE Rider:
Conservative Existential Empiricist
Consilient Extropian Environmentalist
(with a pancritical rationalist predilection)
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