[extropy-chat] French marchers say 'non' to 2007

[Natasha Vita-More]

Forgot to add url http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2060006.ece


At 11:09 AM 1/1/2007, you wrote:
>At 04:04 AM 1/1/2007, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6222153.stm
>>
>>French marchers say 'non' to 2007
>>
>>Hundreds of protestors in France have rung in the New Year by holding a
>>light-hearted march against it.
>>
>>Parodying the French readiness to say "non", the demonstrators in the
>>western city of Nantes waved banners reading: "No to 2007" and "Now is
>>better!"
>>
>>The marchers called on governments and the UN to stop time's "mad race"
>>and declare a moratorium on the future.
>"The name Fonacon comes from the group's title - Front d'opposition à la 
>nouvelle année and Comité d'Organistion National (acronym "con", which 
>means daft). The organisers, who prefer to remain anonymous, say it is 
>illogical that people should celebrate the passing of time. The ending of 
>a year is another step towards the grave and therefore a tragedy, not a 
>cause for joy.
>"The idea, which began in the village of Chauché, south of Nantes last 
>year, was launched nationally at a spoof 'terrorist' press conference. The 
>members of the anti-New Year front, including several otherwise 
>conventional local businessmen and women, dressed up in hoods and masks."
>
>But it is not just the future I am learning.  It is to also about stopping 
>aging and death!  The irony is that while this may seem like a 
>anti-future(ist) trend, it may very well be transhumanist in part.  Please 
>read on:
>"'It is about time that the passage of time ended,' said one of the hooded 
>organisers. 'We are fed up with getting older. Why should we follow the 
>fashion? The planet is getting older and warmer. Not us. Stop this mad 
>race towards death.'"
>
>Natasha
>
><http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
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<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Design Media Artist - Futurist
PhD Candidate, 
<http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/researchcover/rcp.asp?pagetype=G&page=273>Planetary 
Collegium
Proactionary Principle Core Group, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy 
<http://www.extropy.org/>Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

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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