[extropy-chat] learning to appreciate pessimists

[Mike Lorrey]

"As it should" means without government bans on technology. The
development and progress of the human race along its natural track
includes technology, for we are technological creatures through and
through. Nature is about change. What luddites want is unnatural stasis
at a specific level of development.

--- c c <beb_cc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am confused when you write, "as it should". This is the dispute in
> a nutshell. They think they should be able to leave a 'reasonably
> natural' future to their descendents. I agree their future wouldn't
> even be natural to begin with, however their vision of patrimony is
> lodged in their minds like foundation stone. That is not much of an
> exaggeration. They want to whelp children, educate them, the children
> become affluent & have children themselves, the grandparents die off
> and the younger generations inherit estates used to educate those at
> the front of the line;
>  it's self-perpetuating, so when you write, "We want the future to
> happen as it should", they agree with you...they merely have a wholly
> different notion of the future happening "as it should".
> 
> 
> Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >Then they are confused, or you are. The only people who want to
> control
> >the future are luddites who want to legislate technology out of
> >existence. We want the future to happen as it should.
> 
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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