[extropy-chat] Futures Politics

[Natasha Vita-More]

Since I will be asked my political views this coming weekend in an 
interview with a French film on the future, I have outlined my futures 
politics as 4 points:

1.  Nonpartisan.  I believe that no political party today advocates 
solutions for the world's most immediate issues.

2.  Neither right nor left, but "forward."  Drawing a hard line between 
conservatives and liberals is ineffective and looking ahead is the best 
position to take when addressing what the world needs to focus on in the 
coming decades.

3.  Futures Strategy.  Designing strategic analysis of issues that society 
faces and producing alternative "futures" for society to review before 
voting.  The Futures Strategy would provide the means for people - anywhere 
and at anytime - to learn about issues, possible options for dealing with 
and solving problems, and to voice their own opinions through a 
time-efficient and cost-effective P2P architecture.

4. Encouragement of critical thinking.  In order to understand issues 
society needs to be skilled at critical thinking.

Thoughts?

N


<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist - Designer
Future Studies, University of Houston
President, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture
Honorary Vice-Chair, <http://transhumanism.org/>World Transhumanist 
Association
Senior Associate, <http://foresight.org/>Foresight Institute
Advisor, <http://alcor.org/>Alcor Life Extension Foundation

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, 
then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
perspective.
Buckminster Fuller


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