[extropy-chat] Reccommendations for a mailing list

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 01:31 AM 2/11/2005, Giulio wrote:

>But did we really expect it to be easy?
>And of course this also creates internal tensions between
>transhumanists of different political persuasions. But listen to me
>guys, this is GOOD. Discussing politics means that we are actually
>starting to discuss how to get there. And new ideas never emerge from
>groups where everyone is saying the same thing.
>Politics is central to transhumanism in the engineering sense of
>actually making it happen. Please lets not stop discussing politics on
>the list, I am quite willing to tolerate being called asshole a few
>times for the pleasure to contribute to developing something new and
>beautiful.

Thanks Giulio's, nicely stated.  But, we could also have a politics list if 
the majority wants it.


Natasha Vita-More
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