[extropy-chat] Objectivist-Extropian Synthesis

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:55 PM 10/19/2004 -0400, Matus wrote:

>Wonderful article.

Ahem

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As I explained in my science fiction novel, 
<http://www.geocities.com/rational_argumentator/eac.html>Eden against the 
Colossus, resistance by governments, criminals, and irrationalist 
intellectuals against individual liberty and initiative will be futile once 
indefinite life is attained.
Let the irrationalists then prate about the unworthiness of man, or of the 
need to curtail his ambitions. They would have nothing with which to 
curtail, no means of wielding their clubs efficiently, as the pain would be 
nullified and the damage repaired in almost an instant. They would be able 
to put forth no de facto threat, no practical intimidation by which to 
harness the titans of the mind and force them to grovel before the witch 
doctors' shriveled animate carcasses. The forces of reason and progress 
would have won their ultimate battle. After centuries of shielding 
themselves against the tide of mystic maggots, they would have devised the 
surefire repellant at last. (G. Stolyarov II, 
<http://www.geocities.com/rational_argumentator/eac.html>Eden against the 
Colossus, p. 360)
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I'm shocked, shocked I say, to see that this glorious work has failed to 
attain publication. It would make a suitable entry in the Ayn Rand Cruel 
Parody contest.

Damien Broderick