X-Message-Number: 31670
From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Re: social driven growth vs publicity driven growth
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 07:41:27 -0700

Unperson writes:


>I posted an article here on cryonet some months ago called THE BIG SORT (from 
slate.com). It showed how the GOP grew its organization via social growth, in 
particular working within religious organizations and by using a technique 
whereby the recruiter is selected to mirror the potential recruits in certain 
major social and personal characteristics. In other words, social recruitment is
best done by recruiting people who are like yourself, or by at least trying to 
be like the recruit. 


A lot of good that's done the Republicans lately. A recent Washington Post/ABC 
News poll shows that now only 21 percent of the American population identifies 
itself as Republican, an impressive drop for a party that had its way in 
American politics for a generation. I have to wonder if some kind of shaming 
process partly accounts for the decline.


>Also, we do not generally work within religious organizations, which have 
proven to be a very fertile ground for social recruiting, and also because those
who are religious are likely to want to live forever.


Yet another example of trying to model cryonics' growth after a declining sector
of American society:



http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/religionandtheology/1209/sacred%26profane%3A_aris_survey_gets_%E2%80%98religion%E2%80%99%2C_misses_boat

'The recently-published American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS),
compiling the results from nearly 55,000 Americans, made headlines this
week for the trends it revealed in the nation's religious landscape:
Christianity is losing ground, more and more Americans claim to have
"no religion,” and the number of Muslims has doubled, to name only a
few. Jews seem to be disappearing-the religious ones, anyway;
evangelicals are increasing their numbers as the mainline churches
continue to shrink; and new religious communities like Wicca continue
to grow in popularity.'


Evangelical Christians represent a bigger slice of a shrinking pie, in other 
words. Perhaps you should look at religions definitely thriving in the U.S. like
Islam and Wicca as models for recruiting more cryonicists, unperson.


"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death will be rare and
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981).
http://www.box.net/shared/static/ay9lub60ha.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10948503/Up-Wing-Priorities


Mark Plus



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