[extropy-chat] the New Microevolution (comedy)

[Al Brooks]

American culture is enough to make one want to emigrate or be a hermit in the woods (or sadistically relish) no wonder so many luddites want to live (or exist) in tofu-ingesting collectives and communes, they don't just want to live a simple life, they want to get away from American culture. What great futurist visionary would have dared to predict the most advanced nation in the world might have chosen a culture of warm snot-covered pigslop topped off with puke sauce, stretching fron Fargo to Key Largo, from Bakersfield to Buffalo? 
I don't know enough about science to opine concerning science education, but when you look at the social sciences in public schools it almost appears as if the 'kiddies' are being taught not to think. What great futurist visionary would have dared to predict the most advanced nation in the world would sponsor an expensive public education system designed to teach children not to think?
Yet microevolution is being demonstrated, witness the evolution from the Big Deal to the Book Deal. The Big Deals come in neat little wavelets, just recently first the Gitmo wavelet; then the Downing Street Memo; Valerie Plame's wavelet: and now the Cindy Sheehan wavelet, Grieving Big Mommy crying on TV. The wavelets crest neatly, lapping up against each other. The next Big Deal comes, the last Big Thing recedes. In previous eras protesters could easily get beaten and/ or sent to jail or even prison, now they get Book Deals and go on Oprah.






		
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