On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, estropico <<a href="mailto:estropico@gmail.com">estropico@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Anyway, if the Italian transhumanist association can have a<br>
representative of the (borderline?) neofascist Nouvelle Droite<br>
(wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Droite" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Droite</a>) as unelected<br>
"national secretary", I really don't see why <a href="http://www.estropico.com" target="_blank">www.estropico.com</a> can't<br>
have some articles from a neocon alongside all sorts of other<br>
materials (including stuff from leftists such as Riccardo Campa and<br>
James Hughes).<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Yes, while having never been myself right-wing in any sense or fashion, as Lorenz, Dawkins, Eysenck, Dumézil, Eliade, Crick did I wrote in the seventies on magazines edited by French intellectuals that a decade later were to accept, albeit with many qualifications, the definition of Nouvelle Droite. The same that I did on liberal or federalist newspapers, or any other publications interested in hosting my writings, including those of Fabio's dubious associations. On the other hand, be the Nouvelle Droite fascist or not, if I were a "representative" of the same, I would now preach the ideas of deep ecology gurus, the décroissance (relinquishment?) as an antidote to prometheism, the joy of religious mysticism, and the heroic facts of Ned Ludd. One can check by himself at <a href="http://www.alaindebenoist.com">http://www.alaindebenoist.com</a> (a few texts are translated in English). Of course, knowing what one speaks about is not required for trivial attempts to cast aspersion.<br>
<br>All in all, it sounds a little different from publicly declaring oneself as an orphan of the Extropy Institute having now seen the light in specieism, the verb of the World Transhumanist Society of Simon Young, and in the writings of a Dr. Strangelove who preaches the appeasement with creationists since they can be good and obedient troops in the fight for the New World Order against Muslims, Chinese and other lowlifes.<br>
<br>But I will not elaborate any further on those subjects, since my only interest was that the Associazione Italiana Transumanisti took a clear position on the merits of a number of possible misunderstandings and ambiguities, as it had the opportunity to do in the Manifesto drafted by Riccardo Campa and a few more of us, approved by its National Council, and now made public on the Web.<br>
<br>Stefano Vaj<br>