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At 09:24 PM 2/10/2005, Joseph wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">And now, having seen it, a
substantial percentage of Extropians seem to want to plug their fingers
firmly in their ears, cry "LA LA LA" at the top of their lungs,
and pretend that politics deserves to be shunted aside to some ghetto of
an email list because it is "boring" or somesuch. Yeah, THAT'S
effective.<br><br>
Then again, over in the WTA, we see the majority hostile to the party in
power in the U.S. to the point where they won't even work with
Republicans on issues where they share common ground, simply on the basis
that they're Republicans and must therefore be the embodiment of evil by
virtue of having voted for George Bush. Yeah, THAT'S practical.<br><br>
The libertarians are going comatose, the liberals are going into denial.
Where's a poor realist-- I want the Posthuman Future to HAPPEN, DAMNIT,
and I don't care how it does!-- supposed to go?</blockquote><br>
This post got a good chuckle out of me this morning. Over in one corner
is James Hughes pushing social democrat agenda and in the other corner is
Jose Jose Cordeiro ardently defending the conservative stance. What
I really like about this long-term debate is that they are both on the
board of WTA. Now that is progress! <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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