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<DIV><SPAN class=423380721-09102005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Oh,
how I long to write about this subject! Somehow, though, I never seem
to have the time I KNOW the subject demands and deserves. But I'm working
on it. It's not that I don't have things to say on the subject, but I have
become EXTREMELY cautious about putting half-thought-out ideas into the sphere
of discussion. Among other reasons, for those that are being discussed in
the "Futures Past" thread. But perhaps before too long I will write
something here on my political ideas.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Brett
Paatsch<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:46 AM<BR><B>To:</B> ExI
chat list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] Extropy,Political Viewpoint
and the Future of ExI's List<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Natasha wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Our Vice President, Greg Burch, said recently that ...we need a
new</DIV>
<DIV> political viewpoint -- one that far outreaches what we have known
in</DIV>
<DIV> the past - on that is more futuristic for a society that will
find its place</DIV>
<DIV> in the future and help others along into that future.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to hear more about these thoughts on the
need for a new political</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>viewpoint.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do wonder what sort of </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>futurist society Greg in particular </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>envisages. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What will make this future society a </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>society, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>how would it be
envisaged</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>cohere?
Will it be global or national?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett
Paatsch</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>