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Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:51:20 EDT
Subject: Harnessing Nord

Thomas Nord writes:

>I've learned how to influence in
>topnotch politics for decades now, from home costing nothing but hours,
>mostly and simply by writing to the rulers, to their homes in order to
>surpass the secreterial-filter. 

--and other similar remarks.

It would be interesting to know some details of this history, but taking his 
remarks at face value, this is striking and impressive. Since Mr. Nord has 
repeatedly asked for suggestions for his own activities, my reaction is this:

Focus on your strength--established connections in Sweden. Try to sell 
cryonics to prominent or influential or otherwise respected people in Sweden. 
Ask us to help you in whatever way comes to mind, perhaps by writing 
separately to addresses you provide, perhaps by sending you 
specially-designed messages for you to pass on, whatever.

Marta Sandberg has often said that Swedes are very logical and enterprising 
people, with a can-do attitude, and very open to advances in technology. 
Ordinarily, that advantage might not be enough to offset the small 
population, but if Mr. Nord has unusual access and influence, that is another 
story. If important people (and serious people, not entertainers) in any 
country--and especially a widely respected country such as Sweden--were seen 
to embrace cryonics, that could be important indeed.

Incidentally, Steve Bridge gave Thomas a good answer to his correspondent's 
question about body parts. I had sent a similar answer privately yesterday, 
and forgot to copy it to Cryonet, and won't bother now, since Steve said most 
of it. 

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
http://www.cryonics.org

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