It’s 2010! The good news? You’ve survived the first decade of the 21st century. The bad news? Time is running out. So let’s cut to the quick. What is our prospect for immortality? And what is the state of the immortalist movement?
Are these two crucial questions intimately linked? Is our prospect for immortality directly proportional to the state of the immortalist movement? “The ImmorTalist Manifesto” argues they are.
It’s “ImmorTalist Gameplan” requires “creat(ing) an ImmorTalist movement powerful enough to guarantee the anti-aging life-extension breakthroughs arrive in time for us and is affordable.”
So what, pray tell, is the real state of the immortalist movement? How good are its vital signs? If it’s so crucial to our prospects for survival?
Now we here don’t have our heads buried in the sand like some ostrich. We realize that there are those who call themselves “immortalists” or “transhumanists” or “cryonicists” who may disagree with The ImmorTalist Manifesto’s conclusion.
From now on, on immortalism.com, we shall unflinchingly examine The State of Immortalism. Starting this year 2010. And every year after.
We shall critique our current situation realistically. If someone or some group is doing great things for immortalism, we shall trumpet it. If someone or some group is not, we shall spotlight it too.
Other movements like the civil rights, feminist, antiwar, and gay movements have been strengthened by vigorous debates which have highlighted strengths and exposed weaknesses. The Immortalist movement (if there is one) can surely benefit from such a trenchant annual self-examination.
Otherwise, we are condemned to repeating the same mistakes. To betting on the same strategies which have proved to be failures. In other words, otherwise we shall never have a viable immortalist movement. And if this is so, it also means we don’t have a prayer of attaining our goal.
So spread the word. And stay tuned and return again and again to this immortalism.com. Your life will depend on it.
– David Spence
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