[extropy-chat] we're more of a con to ourselves than Enron

[Dirk Bruere]

Al Brooks wrote:

> If freedom is so uber-important then why do we waste time hunched in 
> front of a keyboard, tapping words into cyperspace that have no value 
> in the sum total of things? Why do we spend so much time griping about 
> how we don't have enough freedom when the time could be used to 
> actually BE free? So many are waiting for their ship to come in, and 
> when they reach retirement age they are old but "now I've got it made 
> in the shade-- I'm in my Golden Years, with metamucil to push some of 
> the dross out". Or a 60 year old baby boomer lady who dresses in 
> teenage clothes and thinks, "I'm so young and pretty", when she's got 
> jowls hanging off her face.
> So, uh,  maybe we don't hold freedom as dear as we think we do?
>  

Communicating is the key to changing the world. Sometimes with big ideas 
but more often just passing on a small datum.
As for freedom, I value its fruits not the abstract idea in itself.
As for those 60yr old wannabe teenagers, there is the support we need to 
push for anti-ageing tech and the Transhuman vision. It's a question of 
spreading the message and convincing them its real and not a joke of a 
geek fantasy.

-- 
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org



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