Up-wing politics
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Up-wing politics refers to a political schema proposed by Fereidoun M. Esfandiary in his book "UpWingers: A Futurist Manifesto" and in the essay "Upwing Priorities" (in the now-defunct Future Life magazine). Up-wing politics looks to the sky, into the future and endorses universal progress. It sees a future for humanity beyond this planet. Up‑wingers, have begun to be colour-coded as "Blacks".[1][2][3][4] They include such people as technocrats and libertarians.[2]
Up-wing politics opposes down-wing politics which looks instead down into the earth, and into the past. Down-wing politics seeks to preserve the planet and proudly self-identify themselves as "Greens".[5][6] Down-wing politics is hence conservative while up-wing politics is progressive. The greens want to curb the human aspirations to make them fit within what nature, in its Earthbound form, can reasonably be expected to sustain.
Universal progress[edit]
Up-wing politics endorses such science and technology as genetics and bio-engineering and space exploration[7].
See also[edit]
- Steve Fuller[disambiguation needed]
- Breakthrough Institute
- Bright green environmentalism
- Proactionary Principle
- Lifeboat Foundation
- Icarus Interstellar foundation
- Transhumanism
- Transhumanist politics
- Space colonization
- Colonization of Mars
- Single-axis politics
References[edit]
- ↑ "Left and Right are over. The future is Up and Down – Steve Fuller | Aeon Essays". Aeon (digital magazine). 24 October 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trembath, Alex (December 11, 2015). "Are you a downwinger or an upwinger ?". Slate (magazine).
- ↑ "The Rise of the Up-Wingers Part One". The Breakthrough Institute.
- ↑ "The Rise of the Up-Wingers Part Two". The Breakthrough Institute.
- ↑ "Empowerment Politics: Left Wing, Right Wing, and Up Wing". The Foresight Guide.
- ↑ Marcattilio-McCracken, Ry (October 14, 2015). "The Frozen Father of Modern Transhumanism". vice.com.
- ↑ "Up-Wingers". Up-Wingers Inc.
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