[extropy-chat] ENOUGH already

[Dirk Bruere]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at earthlink.net>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 12:16 AM
Subject: [extropy-chat] ENOUGH already


> I just obtained Bill McKibben's much praised diatribe ENOUGH from the
> library. To my surprise, he quotes THE SPIKE five or six times, always
> choosing quite eloquent and non-silly bits, then displays them as if they
> are self-refuting. Weird. Speaking of weird, he says of Ettinger and
Moravec
> and Stock and me and others that we advocate healthy life extension
without
> understanding how `weird or gross or boring' living forever would be. I've
> only just started the book (after glimpses at the index) but look forward
> eagerly to learning why allowing women to die painfully in childbirth, the
> natural way, isn't even more weird and gross.
>
> (He's amazingly unfair to Max More, whom he cites as boasting that
> he's `a stud'--completely untrue, being McKibben's ascription--able to
> legpress 710 lbs, when Max's point was precisely to refute the claim that
> extropes are all weedy nerdish body-haters.)

Well, put me down as a not-too-weedy 200lb martial arts teacher.

Dirk

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