[ExI] How to build a happier brain

[Kelly Anderson]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:40 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> So it would seem. In the Oppenheimer/ Teller confrontation my heart is
> with Oppenheimer but my brain says Teller was right.
> Percentage-wise between the years 1952 and 2013 fewer humans have killed
> other humans than any other time in history. I don't think its a
> coincidence those are also the years that the H-bomb has existed on this
> planet.
>

Agreed. Teller was right.


> Of course this happy situation could change dramatically in just one hour,
> but only if somebody completely uninterested in logic took control of a
> country with nuclear weapons, for example if one of the Tea Party members
> who voted to default in 90 minutes were ever to become president. Can you
> imagine what it would have been like if Ted Cruz (or even Lyndon Johnson)
> had been president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?!  No, sorry, that's too
> scary a thought to consider even on Halloween.
>

I would submit that John F Kennedy was more conservative than anyone in
government today. Including the Tea Party "fanatics" and the Libertarians.

-Kelly
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