[ExI] Those crazy-eyed optimists!

[AlgaeNymph]

John Grigg wrote:
> Those darn optimists...
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/science/18tier.html
>   
Let me sum up most of the comments: 
http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/science/18tier.html

"Ridley's an ignoramus!  He's a running dog of the bourgeoisie 
imperialists!  His so-called progress is really that devil Consumerism!  
(Boooooo!)  Have Nature and non-whites benefited?  Huh, have they?"

I rage at what my fellow liberals have become.  Know what solution I'm 
being given in college?  "Let's be more like Cuba!"  Where, when, how, 
and why did we go wrong?

P.S.  Don't make this a big dump on the socialists here, political 
infighting is a lot of energy spent on a lot of nothing and you know it.

P.P.S. I've got nothing against libertarianism, I just think it has 
negative political clout.