X-Message-Number: 24345
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:49:48 +0200
Subject: Re: "Independence Day" from the Tyranny of Death, Written July 4, 2004
From: David Stodolsky <>

On Monday, July 5, 2004, at 07:24  PM,  wrote:

> We need to demonize and vilify DEATH and his  handmaiden AGING.  We 
> need to
> personify them, to make this struggle to  defeat them a HEROIC and 
> EPIC one.
>
> Too corny?  Too fuzzy brained?  Too vague and nonscientific you  say?

Yes. The heroic and epic is fine, but personification is a error in 
reasoning.

>
> Well, just grow up.  Look around.  Most folks are NOT motivated  by 
> our most
> rational arguments.  There are less people signed up for  cryonics 
> than people
> who believe the pyramids were made by aliens.  Pick a  lunatic fringe 
> cultish
> idea, and you will find more adherents ready to lay down  their lives 
> and
> fortunes for it than we can muster.

This suggests that some professional social science / marketing inputs 
could be helpful.


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