<div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/3 Amon Zero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amon@doctrinezero.com">amon@doctrinezero.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<span dir="ltr"></span>The thing to remember is, however, that these 'kids' are going to grow up. They *want* to further transhumanism. They want *action*, and they *don't* want bland populist Kurzweilian messages, for the most part.<br clear="all">
</blockquote></div><br>Indeed. As much as I may like our exchanges on transhumanist fora, and their ability to help us cross-educate ourselves to shared ideas, values, languages, not to mention to keep up-to-date with regard to what is happening, the real point is what we do out of the door.<br>
<br>In this respect, as one need not be in the military to wage war, and military men may well in fact be pacifist at heart, I do not think that it is the primary job of the transhumanist(s) movement as such to get directly involved in posthuman change-relevant technologies, but rather that of changing society to the best of their possibilities in a direction making such a change more likely, more imminent, and in the first place - possible.<br>
<br>This is why I think transhumanism to be basically a political identity, requiring action to its supporters along the lines of any other grass-root movement. <br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>