<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jack Parkinson</b> <<a href="mailto:isthatyoujack@icqmail.com">isthatyoujack@icqmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> From: Dirk Bruere <<a href="mailto:dirk.bruere@gmail.com">dirk.bruere@gmail.com</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Extropy, Political Viewpoint and the<br>> Futureof ExI's List<br>> To: ExI chat list <
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</a>><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>><br>> On 10/10/05, Brett Paatsch <<a href="mailto:bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au">bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Natasha wrote:
<br>>><br>>> With respect to yourself, I'm a bit like Dirk, I don't understand exactly<br>>> how you see politics. I get that you are not partly political and that<br>>> you<br>>> do not want to see the
<br>>> world through a prism that renders all human behaviour political but I<br>>> don't really understand the ambit of what it is that you are discussing<br>>> when<br>>> you talk about politics.
<br>>><br>><br>> To clarify my position at least...<br>> I see politics as being the medium of interaction between people (or even<br>> the higher animals).<br>> Political ideologies are different because they are essentially a sibling
<br>> of<br>> religion in that they attempt to provide an all-encompassing worldview<br>> that<br>> explains, predicts and controls (or tries to).<br>><br>> By this definition Extropy is a political ideology.
<br>><br>> Dirk<br><br>BUT... Politics surely is not primarily about individuals and their<br>interrelationships. It is about how groups relate to each other. The Polis<br>is the city-state, politics dictate the will of the group-mind?
<br>Between individual rights and and majority rule is a gap wide enough to<br>accomodate some fairly hefty controversy...<br>Jack<br></blockquote></div><br>
And how many people constitute a group?<br>
Was the bombing by Tim McVeigh political?<br>
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Dirk<br>