[extropy-chat] RE: Transhumanism == militant fascism (apparently)

[Jacob]

Olga Bourlin wrote:

> From: "Jacob" <xander25 at adelphia.net>
>
>> I agree with you whole-heartedly.  I would also suggest a system of
>> thought not too dissimilar to silver-grey thought from John C.
>> Wright's Golden Age designed to hold on to what it means to be human
>> as well as to allow mankind to progress.  Yet another adaptation that
>> I think mankind is fully capable of, and could occur naturally when
>> some future men begin to realize the effects of the technological
>> changes they made.
>
>
> Curses!  Now all the slighted future women will have no choice but to
> fix your wagon.  (Ready, aim ... spokes galore!)
>
> Olga the Maleficent

I'm not sure how to take that, jest or otherwise.  No slight was
intended.  I threw men (which according to Merriam Webster is an
appropriate use of the word) in there as a figure of speech representing
humankind (do we also change the word "humankind"?).  Generally, I am
not given well to political slight-of-hand which is destined to divert
into a side topic, like the one we are going into now.  I'll be sure to
keep my dictionary of politically correct jargon handy from now on.

If only men are fit to become philosophers that excludes Ayn Rand.

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being,
with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." 
--Ayn Rand

Note her wording.  I highly doubt anyone would call her a chauvinist,
particularly since she was female, as well as being a staunch
individualist.  Atlas Shrugged by the same author, in fact, made her
central character a heroine by the name of Dagny. The above quote
applied to her as well.

--jb