Objects In The Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear

Last Friday’s IEET seminar on Biopolitics and Popular Culture has come and gone. What were the take-aways?

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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  12/08  at  11:47 AM

>Even relatively simple “enhancements” like birth control and other reproductive technologies have been met with a firestorm of religiously-based resistance. In fact, this country has actually moved backwards from the widespread acceptance these techniques enjoyed had in the 1970s.

I interpret that to mean that Baby Boomers who survived the sexual revolution concluded that it didn't improve their lives as much as they had hoped, so the Boomers who had children tended to rear them more conservatively. A friend of mine says that if he ever has a daughter, as soon as she starts menstruating, he plans to put her into something like a convent school until she turns 18.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  12/08  at  02:00 PM

"There seemed to be at least two identifiable groups at the conference. Members of the first group identify as “Transhumanists” and embrace a comprehensive agenda for radical human change. ... Then there were those who are either agnostic on the topic (particularly regarding the often-predicted Singularity) or are reluctant to identify with the term itself."

Were there any critics (to both positions) there? Such a guest would prevent the appearance of echo-chamber thinking.

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