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| 20:00:25 | Lucifer | Basically I'm thinking of any group that has an anti-technological agenda |
| 20:00:54 | Lucifer | Oddly enough, most of them have websites |
| 20:01:06 | rhino | ok, we hear it a lot when talking about genetic research |
| 20:01:15 | Lucifer | * Lucifer nods |
| 20:01:26 | Lucifer | The name of Leon Kass comes up a lot |
| 20:01:32 | Lucifer | google: Leon Kass |
| 20:01:32 | googlebot | googling for Leon Kass |
| 20:01:34 | googlebot | http://www.bioethics.gov/about/kass.html |
| 20:02:36 | Lucifer | Chairman of dubya's council on bioethics |
| 20:02:48 | Lucifer | I guess that means he wields a fair amount of power |
| 20:03:42 | Lucifer | Another name that crops up often is Fukuyama |
| 20:03:45 | rhino | a problem is that i don't really know what he has been preaching |
| 20:04:02 | rhino | bioethics is a legitimate subject of study, I think |
| 20:04:37 | Lucifer | certainly |
| 20:04:48 | Lucifer | google: Francis Fukuyama |
| 20:04:48 | rhino | Fukuyama? the one of the "end of history" fame? |
| 20:04:48 | googlebot | googling for Francis Fukuyama |
| 20:04:49 | googlebot | http://www.ml.com/woml/forum/fukuyama.htm |
| 20:06:01 | Lucifer | yes, and more recently this one>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374236437/104-0024567-2014315?v=glance |
| 20:06:12 | Lucifer | Our Posthuman Future |
| 20:07:22 | Lucifer | What about the environmental movement? |
| 20:07:31 | Lucifer | Luddite tendencies? |
| 20:08:00 | Lucifer | Are the anti-capitalists also anti-technological? |
| 20:08:28 | Lucifer | http://www.greenanarchy.org/ is ... interesting |
| 20:08:44 | Lucifer | an anti-civilization journal |
| 20:09:13 | Lucifer | Can you identify with any of these groups? |
| 20:09:24 | Lucifer | Can you understand their point of view? |
| 20:10:10 | Lucifer | What do members find appealing? |
| 20:10:40 | Lucifer | Or, from a memetics perspective, can we identify the bait and hook and threat? |
| 20:10:44 | rhino | anti-capitalism is not anti-technologic in pronciple |
