[extropy-chat] Politics: Transhumanist Social System

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

While I am very much in favor of decentralization (making decisions at
the lowest possible level), I think there are a few things that just
cannot be decentralized efficiently.
"a multi-disciplinary, non-partisian, writing team" sounds good, and
of course its feasibility depends on how we define non-partisan. For
example, I am not-partisan in the sense that I am usually willing to
listen to arguments regardless of the particular political
"affiliation" of whoever is proposing the argument. But when it comes
to choosing between two different and mutually exclusive options, I
usually (not always, but often) choose an option consistent with a
specific, "partisan" worldview.
I think this is the case for everyone. Fact: we do have political
views, and we do have different political views. So, I believe the
challenge is not defining a uniform political view, but finding
workable agreements on a case by case basis. Like a government
coalityion of different parties - each does not like the others' views
at all, but they still have to find some king of agreements on the
practical issues of running the nation.

On 8/18/05, nvitamore at austin.rr.com <nvitamore at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> A transhumanist society needs to be decentralized, with a networked
> economy, and promotion of new social/cultural systems.*
> 
> (This would mean a lack centralized control of a forced choice between, for
> example, Twentieth Century free market, capitalist democracy, and state
> capitalism and state socialism.)
> 
> *While a transhumanism is a type of community, is not merely a collection
> of individuals, nor is it static. It is comprised of a changing set of
> relationships, attitudes and behavior of its members. It has many
> dimensions which may vary, they are all interconnected. Like the physical
> dimensions of length and time, if any one dimension of social system of
> transhumanism is missing, by definition, the system is incomplete.
> 
> Bottom line:
> 
> Back to Square One:  We need a political agenda and not one that is
> alienating the core views of transhumanism, and not one that is watering
> transhumanism down.
> 
> Forward 2 Steps: To create this we need a multi-disciplinary,
> non-partisian, writing team.
> 
> Natasha
> 
> Natasha Vita-More