Re: why not start a borg collective now?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cory C. Albrecht) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 
> Unfortunately not - greediness seems to be inherent in the species. :-(
thats fine to then become a collective for purely selfish motives it
matters not what the individual motives are.instead it is the results
attained.An altruistic communist ashram is not my idea.
> 
> However, rather than a commune, where the individual doesn't own 
> anything, I would suggest something more along the lines of an Amish 
> community. 
you have the right idea .I am not advocating individuals give up there
property or identity in so far as they want to .

You know why they don't have health insurance or 
> home/building/property insurance. Becaus ethey don't need it. If one of 
> their community gets sick beyonf what basic free medicare will provide 
> and the family can't afford, the whole community chips in.

i advocate a sort of co op insurance .this guaruntees that "selfish "
elements
can not exploit the collective.if you dont play you cant win.nothing
is free.you must give to be able to take.no free rides.


 If a barn 
> gets knocked flat in a tornado, not only does the community help with a 
> barn raising (as they would do for a totally new barn on a new farm), 
> but if the family couldn't afford the cost of materials for a new barn 
> (the pigs or chickens they were going to butch to sell got killed in the 
> twister), again the whole community pitches in with materials or money 
> to buy the materials.
they are a non technological form of a borg unified by christian
principles.I am not so sure they will be around much longer.Not very
adaptable
> 
> The whole Amish community is organized around this ideal of community, 
> drawn from an interpretation of the the Bible. One needn't be religious 
> about it, 
agree


>but imagine what a fully modern, technological society could 
> accomplish if it were based around a similar ideal rather than one of 
> commercialism and capitalistic greed? 

this in effect is what i am advocating for the most part but instead
of christianity / bible i replace with transhumanism please reference
the following
along with my reply to the other person who replied to my original
message

http://www.transhumanism.org/
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/

thanks again for your response and interest
please feel free to continue this topic.or assimilate and create your
own.we do not have to be a slave to the available culture
,nation,philosophies that others have created for us.

create your own reality--

dav newq