[ExI] Moooon

[Stefano Vaj]

2011/7/21 Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com>

> In my estimation, the Cold War was a big set back overall for human
> progress -- all the wasted resources and the overall fear mindset. (In my
> view, too, it helped to shift America more in a religious direction to fight
> those "godless commies.") I think we're still recovering from that.
>

Mmhhh. Fundamentalism, both of the christian and of the muslim flavour,
actually exploded after the end of the Cold War. This does not mean to imply
that the same was unconditionally a good thing, but WWI was not either, and
yet certainly created an enormous push towards change, technological and
not.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20110721/f7b0709c/attachment.html>