Too many transhumanist embrace capitalistic ideals. I think we should be associated with social justice and equity. I think these would bring the singularity faster than unchecked capitalism and liberalism. Here a nice article on how the Scandinavians overcame the 1 % : <div>
<br><div><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/how-does-1-exploit-america-find-out-1-minute-video/1329436217?q=how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-one-percent/1327942221">http://www.truth-out.org/how-does-1-exploit-america-find-out-1-minute-video/1329436217?q=how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-one-percent/1327942221</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>Giovanni</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 2:43 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefano Vaj<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] How many transhumanist<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">2012/2/19 Giovanni Santostasi <<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">>…</span>How can we make more appealing our ideas? We cannot change the world without the numbers<span style="color:#1f497d">…</span><br clear="all">
<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Think about this for a minute before you dismiss the notion: the way we increase our numbers is by increasing our exposure, and the surest way to do that is not to make our ideas more appealing, but rather to make them less so.  We make the ideas threatening to a particular segment who already has a following, such as some widely known and perhaps widely disliked religion, then have them criticize transhumanism.  We increase numbers by becoming controversial, not by becoming appealing.  The transhumanists out there who have never heard of us will come, regardless of appeal.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hollyweird discovered this a long time ago.  It was once believed that negative publicity is better than no publicity.  Now,negative publicity is better than positive publicity.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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