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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Alan Brooks [mailto:alaneugenebrooks52@yahoo.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 31, 2014 3:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> spike66@att.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Rube opinion re transhumanism<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id=yiv8925573167><div><div><div id=yiv8925573167><div id="yiv8925573167yui_3_16_0_1_1401575322069_5470"><div id="yiv8925573167yui_3_16_0_1_1401575322069_5469"><div id="yiv8925573167yui_3_16_0_1_1401575322069_5468"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>[Spike, would you please post this at extropy chat?]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv8925573167yui_3_16_0_1_1401575322069_5529"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv8925573167yui_3_16_0_8_1401575322069_6"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/postmodern-conservative/378927/being-postmodern-and-conservative-peter-augustine-lawler" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0066CC'>http://www.nationalreview.com/postmodern-conservative/378927/being-postmodern-and-conservative-peter-augustine-lawler</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv8925573167yui_3_16_0_8_1401575322069_7"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>“One of our conservative criticisms of purely modern thought is its prejudice in favor of endless innovation, which can be seen, for example, in its overly technological view of science. Maybe the purest sources of modern thought these days is the hyper-libertarianism of some economists and Silicon Valley technologists, which points in the direct of transhumanism. The false hope is that through techno-innovation we can become better or freer than human, a hope that depends on ungratefully misunderstanding how stuck and how blessed we are to be beings born to know, love, and die. That’s not to say that we believe, as do those existentialists, that death is the final word about who each of us is”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>'Blessed to die?' What exactly is being blessed to die?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>