[ExI] Sarah Palin

[The Avantguardian]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 12:13:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Sarah Palin
> 
> Re this thread
> 
> There are reasons rooted in human evolution for behavior of this sort
> including  9/11, the US response and the political rise of people such
> as Sarah Palin.
> 
> I have expounded on them enough.  Can someone else speak up?
> 
> Keith

There is probably something to your hypothesis, Keith. The odd thing however is 
that it has been perverted from its evolutionary purpose of gaining the tribe 
resources to gaining a select few economic players the resources at the cost of 
the economic stability of the tribe as a whole. The tribe got suckered by the 
military/industrial/media complex into nearly breaking itself for the benefit of 
a few through the deliberate manipulation of EP. Which is probably why the media 
bends over backwards to avoid calling incidents like this terrorism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19crash.html

It just doesn't fit into the "swarthy threat from afar" xenophobic narrative 
necessary to justify a billion dollar a day war on the far side of the world. 
The sad thing is we can't stop, because only the winner can stop fighting a war. 
And we haven't won yet.


Stuart LaForge 

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through 
love."-Carl Sagan