[extropy-chat] The Cassini Division

[Dirk Bruere]

Jef Allbright wrote:

> Dirk Bruere wrote:
>
>> "Life is a process of breaking down and using other matter, and if 
>> need be, other life. Therefore life is aggression and successful life 
>> is successful aggression. Life is the scum of matter, and people are 
>> the scum of life. There is nothing but matter, forces, space and time 
>> which together make power. Nothing matters, except what matters to 
>> you. Might makes right and power makes freedom. You are free to do 
>> whatever is in your power and if you want to survive and thrive you 
>> had better do whatever is in your interests. If your interests 
>> conflict with those of others, let the others pit their power against 
>> yours, everyone for themselves. If your interests coincide ith those 
>> of others, let them work together with you, and against the rest. We 
>> are what we eat, and we eat everything." - Ken Macleod, The Cassini 
>> Division
>>
> This is a powerful statement of morality, correct in its emphasis on 
> the intentional Self as sole authority on all matters of choice, but 
> misleading in its emphasis on the solitary individual, "bloody in 
> tooth and claw."  The real game has moved up a level, to a broader 
> context where effective cooperation within groups provides the might 
> which makes right and the power that makes freedom.
>
That's covered in:
" If your interests coincide with those of others, let them work 
together with you, and against the rest."

-- 
Dirk

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