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What does this post have to do with extropy or transhumanism? If
anything, I think this post is in bad taste.<br><br>
My my personal view.<br><br>
Natasha<br><br>
At 03:30 PM 8/20/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The Cindy Sheehan Show outside
of Crawford Texas displayed an exhibitionist streak in America, in this
case Grieving Angry Mommy Sobbing On TV. It wasn't Cindy's deceased son
Casey who starred in the show-- it was his very alive and kicking mother:
"How could Bush do this to my son Casey?", not Casey Sheehan
but rather "my SON Casey Sheehan". <br>
In Tom Wolfe's 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test' Ken Kesey leads a few of
his friends to an antiwar protest preceding a march and then goes on a
platform to the microphone in front of a large crowd: "You're
playing their game by marching, people have been marching for thousands
of years and still there is war", says kesey to audience, "And
what are you saying when you yell out loud for peace? You are saying, Me!
ME! look at ME!".<br>
Cindy Sheehan fits this like a glove, she is saying 'look at me! I was
just another grieving mother before, and now I'm a celebrity grieving
mother! Look at me! ME! Look at ME!' <br><br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist, Designer
<dd>Studies of the Future, University of Houston
<dd>President, <a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>Knowledge is the most
democratic source of power.</i> Alvin Toffler
<dd><i>Random acts of kindness... </i>Anne Herbet<br><br></font>
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