X-Message-Number: 19180 From: Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:56:47 EDT Subject: Richard Elixxir --part1_86.1b421e45.2a28cd0f_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rudi Hoffman, writing about The Immortalist Manifesto of "Richard Elixxir," says in part: "And Elixxir is powerful, original, and profound in his indictment of the cultural norms that say that we can't fix this "natural" state" [of inevitable senescence]. Rudi, Rudi, Rudi! Original? Original? Original? Countless people, going back centuries and perhaps millennia, have preceded him, and many books much better than his have expounded the theme. Elixxir does explicitly reject soviet-style communism, but he also deliberately apes The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx, ending with a take-off on Marx's "Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" Change "workers" to "mortals" and "chains" to "mortality." Robert Ettinger Cryonics Institute Immortalist Society www.cryonics.org --part1_86.1b421e45.2a28cd0f_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19180