The Divine Mr. M

"I believe that a bit of Revolutionary Violence can have a salutary effect upon The Powers That Be by reminding them of the 'bounds of propriety'. The wise ones will at least throw the Masses a bone or two in order to keep the peace. The stupid ones [arrogant being a synonym for 'stupid'] often just 'ramp up security' and maintain Business As Usual.

I fear we are presently dealing with the latter type here in The Republic, which is quite unfortunate as Revolutionary Violence is, in my opinion, of only limited utility and, as with any Act of War, as Churchill said, “that once the signal is given [one becomes] the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

I prefer to personally and 'institutionally' avoid any acts of Revolutionary Violence for that very reason, not for any moral or ethical qualms. But I am fully prepared to take advantage of any positive changes or opportunities such acts committed by others may bring our way. One would be a fool not to and a hypocrite to deny such.

I suspect that the creation many such shifts and opportunities will be taking place over the next decade or so."

"It amazes me that anyone can think that for-profit healthcare is a good idea. I don't get the debate. How can a country's people be so brainwashed that they can believe a for-profit system has their best interest in mind, when preexisting conditions prevent you from buying insurance, and many policies do not cover expenses that might save your life? Forty-five million people are uninsured, and we feel that it is not our problem. Where is our compassion for the "least among us?" I think we are close to hitting bottom, when these kinds of things are being debated." Paul Walker from Is Constituency Democracy Destroying The U.S.A.?

Many in the Transhumanist community seem share a certain outlook, the admirable view that Transhumanism will succeed by pure reason and logic alone. But the vast majority of Baseline Humans are *not* reasonable nor logical. As a species we tend to automatically view Change as Loss, are largely superstitious, fear driven and more often than not act with a violent irrationality upon anything we perceive as threatening whatever little epistemological ghetto we happen to live in.

Something like Transhumanism is utterly terrifying to most Baseline Humans as they quite accurately see it as heralding the end of their line. That is a profound existential threat that I guarantee will be meet with an extreme and brutal reaction. To deny this reality is suicidal foolishness.

This is a Struggle for The Future. Such is not for the faint of heart nor the weak willed. We in the Transhumanist community have a double challenge, that of upgrading and improving The Race while simultaneously fighting off those who wish to maintain the status quo. At certain points that will require the use of Violent Force. I repeat, 'To deny this reality is suicidal foolishness.'

Many in the Transhumanist community will find this a repugnant paradigm and reject it. I suspect no small number of those will have an unpleasant fate upon actually encountering said paradigm. The more bloody minded of us will carry on and do our best to defend those with that more 'enlightened' world view from the brutal ugliness of the real unenlightened world.

Something to keep in mind; that those who want the species to remain just as it is vastly outnumber us, their 'reality' is already in place and no small number of them will be quite happy to kill us in order to stop our work.