[extropy-chat] Bluff and the Darwin award

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/17/06, KAZ <kazvorpal at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This is true...but it's also nothing new. People were, correctly, pointing
> out exactly those factors thirty years ago, sixty years ago, ninety years
> ago, 150 years ago, and 185 years ago...just to mention a few I know of
> specifically. Things went to hell in a handbasket with the Civil War, with
> Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, et cetera.
>
> But the downtime between the Enlightenment and the Information Revolution
> was both short and mild, in the US. Who knows, it might even be better this
> time.


Unlike me, you are an optimist ^.^ This is not a bad thing in itself; the
world needs optimists as well as pessimists. I will suggest proceeding as
though I'm right - while at the same time hoping you're right.
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