Eric, at the risk of deviating from the issue, here is one prominent example of an INDIVIDUAL named Richard Kaplan, author of "An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future (1998)", deconstructed by JM Greer, who shoud be termed a national treasure of american thought. See: http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.de/2012/07/distant-sound-of-tumbrils.html
As a nonnative speaker of the american language I am struck by the elegance and deepness of thought, which JMG shows. Here he addresses Richard Kaplan as a concrete person, who dared to encounter to bridge the gap between the abstract and the concrete, and, as JMG rightly elaborated, understood exactly nothing. A cautious tale: Please value Your treasures. JMG being one of them. This I say from a distance. Kurzweil being a disgrace in comparison, with poor logic. Having a terminal disease, what exactly does he do to ascertain his immortality? Just asking. Deepfreeze? Ha! This despite that I suspect that transhumanists are the majority here. But someone must be the minority, right? Here I am. I am not your everyday cornucopian, as you probably noticed. More like http://xkcd.com/1007/, having a bitter laugh at some follies of my compatriots in the journey into the uncertain. Guenter ________________________________ Von: Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 18:03 Samstag, 14.Juli 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III Being a naive American, I'm given to baseless theorizing and am willing to believe anything my government tells me. So I appreciate random speculation. But when we're talking about people, especially living ones, we should ground any discussion in solid, demonstrable facts, and avoid accidentally sliding into character assassination. Eric Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2012, at 7:19, Guenter Wildgruber <gwildgru...@ymail.com> wrote: Jojo, >pretending, mimikry and (self-) decepiton are part of the gene-pool, developed >for wahtever reason by evolution. >As conscious beings we have to fight this.
