[ExI] Philanthropy

[Samantha Atkins]

On 07/01/2011 01:29 PM, natasha at natasha.cc wrote:
> Kelly, why don't you look beyond political borders?  Who gives a 
> flying monkey's ass what the political party is - or ism?!  We have 
> world problems to solve and need smart strategic thinking that 
> arguably understands the transhumanist perspective.  Forgive me, but 
> talking about libertarianism and/or Markism or socialism, etc. is so 
> old world it causes my skin to crawl.  (Actually I would like my skin 
> to crawl, but preferably with nanorobots rather than political 
> bot-tlenecking.)

Sometimes we need to talk about these things because it is obvious 
people still have a difficult time thinking about politics and economics 
in a sane way or even having a fruitful discussion with others on these 
topics.   Granted the old labels are pretty useless.  However the 
underlying issues are very much alive.

- samantha