Maxim points to 'suspended disbelief'

[+] Here's a great way to look at things, posted by Maxim-- regarding the financing SA and the recent SA case. She points out that all that is required is suspension of disbelief. I've been toying with that idea for some time on a host of issues, from the moon landing hoax to ethanol, global warming etc. It's an excellent "tool"-- the "suspension of disbelief".

The current situation at SA (suspended animation Inc) only requires that cryonicists and others like the local government etc. "suspend their disbelief" in what is going on. The job of SA and Harris is to provide just enough material for "most of us" to be WILLING to suspend our disbelief. As long as people have THAT, they feel okay about it.

The job of the critic is to make it not possible to suspend disbelief by pointing out glaring inconsistencies-- and Maxim points one out here in that SUDDENLY SA became cost concious when an actual case came along.... whereas before they didn't seem to be cost concious at all. That point makes it impossible for me to suspend my disbelief in SA's legitimacy alone.

When Bush got Congress to okay the Iraq invasion, his job was to give enough voters enough reason to suspend their disbelief that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Cryonics in general requires enough people to suspend their disbelief that it can potentially work. Our job as cryonicists is to give people more reasons to suspend their disbelief, but the ministers and priests who give people reasons to suspend their disbelief in an afterlife or trapped souls etc still wins hands down.

Suspended disbelief is what it's all about-- in addition to whatever we think the reality of the situation is... although the reality may be nothing more than suspended disbelief itself-- on some level.