I have resigned from the IEET Board of Directors

I have resigned from the Board of Directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET).

I have resigned in protest against a recent decision, which hasn’t been publicly announced yet.

Like much of today’s liberal left, the IEET has embraced certain currently fashionable but dangerously toxic trends.

Identity politics, #MeToo, cancel culture… These trends start with good sentiments, but become toxic and dangerous when pushed to unreasonable and often ridiculous extremes.

The excesses of some extremists, which are tolerated if not encouraged by the mainstream left, are pushing more and more moderates (both moderate conservatives and moderate liberals) toward the extreme right.

The likely results of this can only harm women and disadvantaged minorities in the long run. But some people are more interested in pointless virtue signaling than in actual outcomes.

I’m sure many of the reasonable liberals who choose to tolerate this without speaking up have the heart in the right place. But not the brain.

I don’t talk much about these things, and I try to ignore related discussions on social media. Not only because I have better things to do, but also because I don’t want to contribute to mass hysteria.

Read my last book “Futurist spaceflight meditations” if you are curious about my take on current politics and culture wars.

While in this post I have condemned some toxic aspects of the liberal left, I’m perfectly aware that the conservative right has its own toxic aspects, which too many reasonable conservatives choose to tolerate.

Cover picture from Pixabay.