[ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Posted following comment on his page, for what is worth:

Imagine we were in the middle ages. There is no real democracy. There is
wide spread poverty, people die young. Disease, wars, ignorance are
dominant. You get the picture. Imagine that I'm a visionary and I see how
it is possible to go from where we are in the middle ages to where we could
be let's say in a modern western country circa 2012. Of course this would
be amazing and such a futurist would have an incredible visionary outlook,
but not utterly impossible right (and I'm using this as an extreme to make
a point). Then I start to write pamphlets about the future and what is the
path for mankind. I introduce the concept of democracy, of the scientific
method, how we should get rid of the power of kings and church, how we
should give free education to the children, women included, that science
will help us to produce more food, that people would not work in the field
all their lives, that we can defeat disease, bring water to the houses,
have machine to transport to places, communicate with people over enormous
distance, we could travel to the moon. Continue this list and add anything
you are so familiar with and take for granted from your experience. Think
how a middle ages man, even a very clever and open minded one, would react
to such fantasies about the future:

"These car-cultish people are ridiculous, extend life to 80 years for the
majority of people when most humans die before reaching 30? Give rights to
women, what is next allow sodomites to have sex without being harshly
punished? Or maybe going to bed every day with a full stomach? Such
foolish, elitist thing to say, these airplane-cultist they think they can
fly, like witches do. It is ridiculous and full of hubris".

I can go for ever and if this seems stupid, it is because it is stupid. No
imagination man, it is a medieval sin in particular for a so called artist.

Giovanni


On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't really dislike him, he writes fun and often interesting
> (other) things. He dislikes us all though, without distinctions.
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM,  <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
> >> Appologizes for posting this icky link that someone forwarded to me:
> >>
> >> <
> http://www.wfs.org/blogs/dale-carrico/how-write-your-transhumanist-article-helpful-guide-for-more-profitable-prophesyin
> >
> >>
> >> I don't have it in me to read it or respond to it, but some of you
> might.
> >
> > I dunno... I found it mildly humorous, although his logic is
> > admittedly pretty weak. I guess the rest of you have history with him
> > that taints how you see what he writes in this particular instance...
> > Must be a pretty lame guy for all of you great people to dislike him.
> > :-)
> >
> > -Kelly
> >
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