X-Message-Number: 31255
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:06:29 -0800 (PST)
From: un person <>
Subject: Alien Nation


The joke is on Caplan. People who sign up cryonics, at least so far, are already
fairly alienated from this society. This is probably the biggest reason why 
they sign up. So, I doubt it will be that big a step for us to go into a future 
as almost an alien being. Many of us cryonicists are, in some respects, already 
aliens in our own time and place today. 


Most of us already long for some other place. We lack sufficient connections to 
this society to keep us here. And some of us feel cheated by our inability to 
fit in, to adapt to this current society. I guess a lot of us want another 
chance.


Most people cannot bear to leave this present for an unknown because they have 
so tightly integrated this present into their own being that they cannot 
conceive of giving it up. 


But we cryonicists, in large part, I suspect, would welcome leaving this 
society. The bonds are already so weak that most of us will never miss them, or 
at least that is the way we feel now.

-unperson

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