[extropy-chat] Politics: Transhumanist Social System

[The Avantguardian]

--- "nvitamore at austin.rr.com"
<nvitamore at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Maybe I am a mutant, but I simply do not sit with
> any one political view as
> entirely positive, workable, and fair-minded. 

Well, Natasha, there is a place in the world for us
mutants. :) I have typically voted democrat but only
because of small personal idiosyncracies that make
that party by an infinitesimal amount the lesser of
two evils and to be honest, I am sick of it. I hear
the complaints by my conservative friends against the
democrats and these complaints are legitimate. Sadly
however the complaints of my liberal friends against
the republicans are every bit as legitimate. So I am
stuck making horrible compromises that I am loathe to
do. 

> Well, yes.  And, again, my point is that I am MOST
> interested in the
> mechanism - the architecture - the means for solving
> the problem:  a
> multi-disciplinary, non-partisan writing team.   In
> other words, leave the
> political positioning badge outside the door and put
> on the intelligent
> thinking cap.

This is hard to do when even people trying to be
non-partisans get called on making subtle references
to party dogma. This however is the karma of a
dualistic two-party system. I think that an important
first step is realizing that a duopoly is every bit as
horrendous as a monopoly. You end up with only coke
and pepsi and they taste the same. So you end up
having to choose between them based on the most inane
of criteria after which you get essentially the same
thing. A bunch of fizzy, poppy, sugary, yet all so
empty calories.

But I agree with you on the importance of being able
to have a non-partisan forum on politics. I am not
sure how to go about it. Maybe we could agree to not
use proper nouns in our political discussions or any
noun with an -ism suffix. Quite frankly I am very
disillusioned with -isms. 

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us." 
-Bill Watterson


		
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