X-Message-Number: 1435 Date: 13 Dec 92 01:49:27 EST From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: Re: cryonics: #1425 - #1428 To Scott Herman: I missed a lot of the controversy when I was moving. Some parts of your message were unclear to me. It was of course clear that you were thoroughly shat off about some active members of Alcor. I will say that if only politicians remain in Alcor, then we can't expect Alcor to be run by anyone but politicians. It's obviously distasteful to you to deal with politicians, and I even sympathize a lot with that reaction. But that is one of the problems up with which we must put ... not only government interference and bureaucracy, dumb misunderstanding by most of the public, and difficulties in raising money and organizing to achieve in the simplest kinds of progress --- but internal politics, too. As for myself, if I had not decided long ago that cryonics was my only chance at long term life, I would have left the field many years ago. Do you know of any cryonics society which is NOT affected by politics? Do you know, for that matter, of any SOCIETY which is not affected by politics? I don't, and I've been involved with all of them. Best, and long life, Thomas Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1435