X-Message-Number: 32701
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:49:29 -0700
Subject: Guilty for existing?
From: MARK PLUS <>

The surprisingly negative comments appended to Kerry Howley's essay
about male cryonicists and their hostile wives, as well as similar
comments posted about it on other websites, make me judge this piece a
failure in cryonics education and reputation building.

Three observations:

1. Something about the cryonics idea still fails to communicate
effectively, despite nearly 50 years of effort.

2. The essay focuses on a submissive and geeky beta male cryonicist
with a wife who doesn't respect him. I suspect that if instead it had
profiled a confident alpha male cryonicist with a younger, attractive
and more deferential wife, signs of financial success and the
implication that he still has his "game" going for him, the essay
would have generated fewer derogatory responses because of our natural
disinclination to challenge dominant males.

3. I get the impression from the negative comments that a surprisingly
large number of people feel guilty for existing. Yet when they
encounter cryonicists who display freedom from this guilt, something
about us makes them angry.

I, for one, certainly don't feel guilty about my existence, and about
wanting more of it. Do you?

-- 
Mark Plus
Life is short: Freeze hard!

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