From: "David R. Jones" <david_r_j-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: RE: To a 'Deleuzian' cornudo Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:54:35 PST Has any of you ever visited www.nietzsche.com? It had a link to a "hedonistic web" thing, whose motto seems to be "better living thru chemistry". I didn't get to read all the texts, but here goes the home page: The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved only because they once served the fitness of our genes. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture. States of sublime well-being are destined to become the genetically pre-programmed norm of mental health. "Two hundred years ago, powerful synthetic pain-killers and surgical anaesthetics were unknown. The notion that physical pain could be banished from most people's lives would have seemed crankish. Today most of us in the urban-industrial nations take its routine absence for granted. The prospect that what we describe as psychological pain, too, could be banished is equally counter-intuitive. The feasibility of its abolition turns its deliberate retention into an issue of social policy and ethical choice". I find it hard to relate Nietzsche to such a thing. I will just quote G. Colli: "Il dolore è nel gusto de Nietzsche - ed è contro il gusto del mondo moderno". ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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