"I am a 21st Century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future."
Up-wingers, Inc. is a non profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to accelerating humanity's march to the next stage in evolution. Founded in 1977 by FM-2030 and Flora Schnall, it is a catalyst to stimulate, inform and uplift. One of the ways Up-wingers does this is by supporting many humanitarian causes. We believe that we have the ability, the resources, and the genius to resolve many of our age-old problems. Up-wingers supports the optimism that FM represented.
The Up-wingers philosophy: To thrust beyond ago-old philosophies and ideologies.
OPTIMISM | ABUNDANCE | UNIVERSALISM | IMMORTALITY
FM-2030 was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant. Originally born with the name Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, in the 1970s he legally changed his name to FM-2030. In his opinion, “Conventional names define a person’s past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion,” rather than where we are going. He developed his views on transhumanism in the 1960s and evolved them over the next thirty-something years, dubbing him as the "Father of Transhumanism." He became notable for his many books including Up-Wingers: A Futurists Manifesto, published in 1973, and Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989.
FM-2030 passed away on July 8th, 2000 and has been in cryonic suspension since, awaiting the day when technology will be advanced enough to bring him back.
"Up-Winger" was a term coined by FM-2030 to describe an alternative to the defaults of the right and left wing political duality.
"Here is the manifesto for Up-Wingers - those who transcend right- and left-wing philosophies. There are whole new dimensions of thought and action emerging which go far beyond Right and Left, far beyond conservative, liberal, and radical Left-dimensions which defy all our age-old philosophies and ideologies. How do you identify space scientists now working to establish communities outside this world? Or this working on the implantation of electrodes in the body to enable the individual to control its own body and emotions? Or geneticists and bio-engineers striving to redo the human body and conquer death? There and other breakthroughs are outside the range of all traditional philosophical, social, economic, political frameworks. There emerging dimensions are Up. We line in the most revolutionary and promising era in our entire history. It is a time not simply of historic changes but also of cosmic upheavals. Suddenly everything is possible. Pessimism is Old World and reactionary. We are at the beginning of the Age of Optimism."
- FM-2030, Up-Wingers: A Futurist Manifesto
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