[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Global Environment CitizenAward

[Jon Swanson]

The environmental message is important, although i suppose impending
environmental doom could further spur technological advances and
contribute to the singularity.

Another interesting point brought up is that the government of the US,
the most powerful nation in the world, is currently dominated by both
Theology AND Ideology, something Moyer claims has never happened
before:
"That's why they have declared solidarity with Israel and the Jewish
settlements and backed up their support with money and volunteers.
It's why the invasion of Iraq for them was a warm-up act, predicted in
the Book of Revelation where four angels 'which are bound in the great
river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of man.' A war
with Islam in the Middle East is not something to be feared but
welcomed - an essential conflagration on the road to redemption. "

Whether or not action in Iraq is a mistake, the US running around the
world starting conflicts because of religious beliefs is rather
frightening.