[extropy-chat] Politics

[Brett Paatsch]

Russell Wallace wrote:

  On 12/23/05, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:
    When it comes to politics on this list I consider one form a necessity and the other a pest.
    The pest can be summed up as "parochial party politics". It is easy to spot - the names 'Bush', 'Republican', 'Democrat' etc make unwelcome appearances in almost all instances.
    If people want to talk about politics let's keep it to either specific instances that affect Transhumanist aims directly, or to principles and practices op the wider stage..
    Am I alone in this view?


  Seconded (or thirded, fourthed etc). Anyone who disagrees, let's suppose I got a bunch of Irish friends and we came onto this list and started spamming it with a zillion angry messages a day about Bertie Ahern. Something tells me the moderator wouldn't be quite so tolerant.

  Now there are political discussions that are genuinely extropy-relevant. They just don't tend to involve sphexish bickering about whether the current occupant of $government_building shags sheep.

  - Russell

Russell, no polity can survive without the rule of law. 

That is what this is ultimately about, the rule of law.

Bertie Ahern is not a threat to the global rule of law.

Ireland doesn't matter that much. The United States
does. 

If you can show how future communities might 
emerge in this world without upholding the principle
of the rule of law and without the expectation that
those who take an oath of office should be expected
to uphold it then I am all eyes and ears.


Brett Paatsch
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