[ExI] Israel and Transhumanism article in H+

[spike]

> > Johnny, I am puzzled by your puzzlement sir... spike
> 
> Transhumanism tends to be antagonistic toward religion...

Ja.

> And so I am not surprised by Israel's great progress, but in 
> those who normally disparage religion, and yet idolize this 
> plucky little nation and it's people... John

History judges a people by how it uses technology.  I don't care about what
any particular society names its deity, or how it prays.  I do care about
how a society scores in building an orderly society, in how its people
prosper, in fairness and equality in that society, in the level of
individual freedom in that society, and EXPECIALLY, the level of individual
freedom in that society, followed closely by the level of individual freedom
in that society.

Israel scores high in the areas I care about.

In retrospect, it is too bad Israel was set up in the middle east.  After
the war we should have given them Wyoming or Alaska or something.  We have
never used Wyoming for anything useful, and the land is no worse than
Israel.  We could have bought out the approximately four families that live
there, then made that Israel.  The Israelis could have come in there and
made something of the place.

spike