X-Message-Number: 33139
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:18:57 -0700
Subject: Re: Max More: find the right dog whistle to grow cryonics
From: MARK PLUS <>

In Cryonet #33135,, un person writes:

>But that sure wasn't the persona bush had when he ran for president twice. Oh,
no. You see, Bush is smart, and he had smart advisors. He knows that a more
homespun, "country", HUMBLE, a more SPIRITUAL persona is what wins over more

people. So he became an actor, and he played a part. He found a dog whistle that
more people could hear.

I think you underestimate the Americans who matter. The American
people, at least the ones with some intelligence, have warmed up to
Christopher Hitchens, like Max an Oxford-educated British immigrant
with controversial views and an uninhibited way of speaking and
writing. Who could have predicted that Americans would turn Hitchens's
pro-atheism book into a best seller, and elevate Hitchens into a
sought-after public intellectual (now unfortunately dying from
cancer)?

Of course, Max has a different role to play now than public
intellectual. But his education, published world view and way of
expressing himself don't carry the costs you seem to think they do.

-- 
Mark Plus
Life is short: Freeze hard!

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