[extropy-chat] The next steps for individuals

[Kevin Freels]

I'm in the midwest too. Don;t you just love all those huge SUVs, Nascar,
sports bars, and 4x4 trucks on huge wheels with gunracks, big number "3"s,
and a huge WWJD sticker in the window next to the little man "pissing" on
"Osma" sticker? (Yes, that's not a typo. I have seen it around on about 15
different vehicles. "Osama" misspelled and prominently displayed on the rear
windshield!)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Brooks" <kerry_prez at yahoo.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] The next steps for individuals


> It's not so bad in America, as a wise poster just
> wrote "we in the West don't realise how good we have
> it". I live in the Midwest and don't like the culture
> at all, Midwestern Monster Mix, it is called: Jesus,
> booze, bowling for Columbine, beer, Choir practice. 23
> skidoo.
> But they look at me and are sickened too; life
> extension, music, trendology- all that pointyheaded
> intolech shoe-L stuff. I think my 'stuff' is superior,
> they think there's is.
>  It's moving so slow but the years are going so fast.
>
>
>  > What about the Midwest and the South? It would seem
> > to me that the
> > problem is a lot closer to home. Its clear that the
> > insane Christian
> > meme that we have been politely ignoring for years
> > has come home to
> > roost. It was ignorable as long as it was not able
> > to control the
> > strings of government too tightly, but there are now
> > enough
> > fundamentalist christians to control the fate of the
> > only remaining
> > superpower.
> >
> > http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/15/nyt.kristof/
> >
> > I live in a small East German town. Just down the
> > street I have a bunch
> > of Texan Baptist missionaries who have opened up a
> > cafe to lure and
> > convert secular communists. These guys are really
> > well organized and
> > funded. Not only that I constantly bump into Mormons
> > from Utah on the
> > tram. How many Extropians do you find in Texas
> > trying to spread the
> > word? What hope do progressive forces have in a
> > democracy when they are
> > not willing to actively engage those who disagree
> > with them? Reading
> > (or writing) op-ed pieces in NYTimes is not going to
> > change anyone's
> > views in small towns in South or Mid-West. We need
> > to become much more
> > directly active if we want to change beliefs.
> >
> > We need Extropian missionaries in the South and
> > Midwest!
> >
> > best, patrick
> >
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