From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Oct 19 1999 - 03:07:11 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com> writes:
> First we need to infect as many extropic-minded people as possible with the
> meme for returning to breeding like rabbits.
That assumes this will increase the number of extropian people, which
I doubt. In fact, parenting will most likely distract from many
extropian activities and projects, and as you point out, making the
children extropian is not failsafe (I would like to think that
transhumanists, by applying transhumanist ideas and values in
upbringing, would make more healthy and free children, but there is
not yet enough evidence for this).
> In addition, one
> should consider the effect when progeny decide against extropy, and choose
> to war against their parents (like every generation has a tendency to do).
Do they? The popular view is that they do, but I can't say I war
against my parents' values - I have different values, which sometimes
coincide, sometimes collide with their old values. My teenage revolt
must have been a very silent and discreet coup d'etat :-)
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