[extropy-chat] The New Atlantis compares JPII and Transhumanism

[spike]

> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Bloch
> Subject: [extropy-chat] The New Atlantis compares JPII and Transhumanism
> 
> http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/9/hart.htm
> 
> It's more than a year old, but some anti-Transhumanist and pro-Catholic
> blogs have just picked up on it and are breathing new life into it. Joseph
Bloch

>From the article Joseph Bloch referenced:

"...Joseph Fletcher was a man with a manifestly brutal mind, desperately
anxious to believe himself superior to the common run of men, one who
apparently received some sort of crypto-erotic thrill from his cruel
fantasies of creating a slave race, and of literally branding others as his
genetic inferiors..."


Who is this Joseph Fletcher character that is being savaged?  I have been
reading transhumanist stuff for over a decade and never heard of him.  The
article seems to think he has something to do with transhumanism.

spike