[extropy-chat] Extropian Scorecard

[Technotranscendence]

On Sunday, November 07, 2004 7:56 PM Damien Broderick
thespike at satx.rr.com wrote:
> People get over lots of changes. When inflation
> robs us of our savings, we sit there quietly or
> muttering; there's hardly ever a bloody
> revolution with bankers' heads on poles.

Though I'm not sure the bankers cause inflation -- maybe the central
bankers do, but not bankers in general -- your gist is correct.  People
will get used to just about anything, especially if it comes in small
doses at first.  I'm reminded of a certain quaint phrase on the matter:
"all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed."

Cheers!

Dan
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