X-Message-Number: 29211
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:30:33 -0800 (PST)
From: EnTwa DuMeLa <>
Subject: backlash against over-optimistic futurism?

At Mark Plus' blog, we see an example of how futurism
hype has started to create a backlash.
http://transsurvivalist.blogspot.com/

From his blog:

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How sad. Nobody takes Buckminster Fuller, Gerard K.
O'Neill and other futuristic visionaries active in the
1970's seriously these days, though a current crop of
people with similar agendas have recycled some of
their ideas. We don't have that cybernated leisure
society, radical life extension, space colonization,
widespread psychedelic expansion of human
consciousness and other dreams set in the early 21st
Century that my teenaged reading in the 1970's led me
to expect by now.
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I can validate mark's feelings. In many ways we have
lost ground here in America over the last 30 years. 

Altough food staples are quite cheap, medical care is
much more expensive.

And leisure time is actually less available here in
America than it used to be.

And most of the gee whiz future seems to be farther
and farther away.

I wonder whether this backlash will spread, and if so
whether it will affect cryonics membership.


--He Who Greets With Fire





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