[extropy-chat] Politics

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Dec 27, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Joseph Bloch wrote:

> I should point out, however, that there is a caveat to my neat and (to 
> me, anyway) obvious categorization. There are individuals for whom 
> Transhumanism is only a means to a particular political end, rather 
> than having PostHumanity as the end in and of itself. That is, some 
> seem to see Transhumanism as merely the best way to achieve global 
> Democratic Socialism, or the only way that an Anarcho-Capitalist 
> society will come about, and thus they focus on the ideological goal, 
> rather than focusing on the (post-?)biological goal. Such individuals 
> will continue to pursue their ideological goals, and their discussions 
> (and, I daresay, activities) will slant accordingly. Alas.

This last caveat describes virtually every politically-oriented 
transhumanist I know.  Only those who avoid politics like the plague, 
or those who keep insisting that transhumanism transcends left-right 
politics, seem to be really interested in transhumanism itself.

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Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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