Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!rbg From: rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.misc Subject: Re: Report upon "Whither are we drifting?" Message-ID: <38@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 08:53:02 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.38 Posted: Wed Jun 20 08:53:02 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 08:26:26 EDT References: <1020@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 8 Whether or not "movements for social or political change" attract technocrats depends a lot on their philosophy. Many of the "back to nature" movements are (sometimes explicitly) anti-technology and anti-intellectual. Although many technically oriented people support environmental groups, they don't usually share this attitude. Many of the pro-space groups get almost all their support from the technical community. Perhaps many technical people are less political because they are more absorbed by their work than the average person?