[Synapse elist] (no subject)

[Brad Nunn]

Hi everyone,

In response to Ju -

"I have no desire or yearning for 'correction' because I do not  
believe there is anything 'wrong' with me."

Interesting…. but from my stance I cannot accept this. Perhaps my  
understandings of ‘correction’ and ‘wrong’ have been moulded by a  
range of individual life experiences and thus are of different tones  
to others? What is ‘wrong’ with the body that I inhabit? Nothing and  
something. I’m have ‘pride’ of being other, of who I am and am very  
happy with my life, but yet I still am aware that my body has deviated  
from it’s previous pathway. The two most important augmentations that  
I rely on are my Universal knife, a tool that allows me to cut my own  
food without the necessity of a fork holding other hand, and a Left  
Handed Maltron Keyboard. To me they are two faced symbols, from one  
stance they are empowerment and enablement personified, and from the  
other they are symbols that mark the distance I have “traveled from my  
original condition”. Again, I am happy with my bodily existence and  
the pathway I am now on, I do not pine for my previous existence, but  
I also will never discount any sort of technological intervention to  
‘correct’ my wayward right side.

"I also do not believe that science will ever possess this power of  
correction, and that society is currently suffering from a form of  
collective body  dysphoria in thinking that it will."

Agree and disagree. On the yes side I agree that society is blinkered  
and really has drunk the ‘Kool Aid’ in its expectations scientific  
miracles. However on the positive side I’m optimistic of continued  
scientific progress. From my perspective I view human kind at this  
point in time a Homo Faber in training, an inexperienced tinker  
delving into the re-making of bodily systems.


Brad