[ExI] 41% of people are insane

[Ross Evans]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/22/jesus-returning-cancer-cured-u-s-poll-predicts-life-in-2050/

That 41%, the idiot contingent, represents an enormous obstacle to the kind
of future the transhumanist movement believes in. These are people for whom
modernity is difficult to deal with, what awaits will alienate them in ways
they can't even imagine; and therein lies the problem. I think the biggest
terrorist threat in the future may well  be from some confluence of crazies,
from disparate religious  traditions, united under the banner of
neo-ludditry.
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