[extropy-chat] all politics all the time, not

[Bret Kulakovich]

To be honest, I have been wondering if we weren't targeted somehow.  
As in alt.syntax.tactical targeted - investigated, then intentionally  
earmarked for culture-jamming syntax warfare by who knows what.

I have been on and off this list for a long time, so perhaps my  
surname in a lot of killfiles by now. =) However when I post to our  
future-friendly film discussion a shopping list of many Transhumanist/ 
Extropian interest points and hear nothing in return, I honestly  
wonder what is going on here?

I have mentioned in previous posts - we need to change scale - a few  
years is nothing. Getting hung up to the point where we can't even  
tolerate each other is damaging to us. Sure we all have different  
opinions on these issues - why would a group as open minded be all  
like minded?

It would be very interesting to see if we reach some sort of public  
interest crescendo in the next year, so that people hitting our list  
archives can judge us by our prattle and degrade our message. If this  
comes to pass, then my first statement might have some merit. Time  
will tell.

]3

Bret Kulakovich





On Aug 9, 2005, at 9:28 AM, nvitamore at austin.rr.com wrote:

>
> From: Damien Broderick
>
> At 09:11 PM 8/8/2005 -0700, spike wrote:
>
>
>> We are becoming all politics all the time.
>>
>
> No, there's also the endless babble about how evolution is crap,  
> and about
> how god is the answer, and any day now probably an onslaught against
> fluoridation and genetic engineering and that awful optimistic  
> rational
> thinking.
>
>
>> Do let us cool that for a while, shall we?  Note that
>> we are not booting anything anywhere, just asking for
>> something else for a few days.  Anything else.  Please.
>>
>
> "Not *anything* else than politics. Please. The tedious trolling is  
> not a
> good look for this list.
>