<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Henson</b> <<a href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sorry for harping on this, but understanding EP is really critical toward<br>making sense out of the social world.</blockquote><div><br>Keith, I have no argument with this. However, one runs the risk of thinking that the forest is more significant than the trees. EP is a social and therefore an "average" perspective way of viewing things. If one watches society at large adopting the internet, cell phones, Blackberries, iPods, assaulting Nigerian oil platforms, various bombings in many countries [1], one might be struck by the copy-cat they seem to have. If XYZZY is doing thus-and-so then XYZZZ might as well do it too.
<br><br>However, all brains are not equal, there are those which have selected from the gene pool the creation of a different vector. Mostly these probably fail. Sometimes they are successful. I would offer the "spin" that EP is trailing the successful novel vectors pioneered by single individuals. You can attempt to stick your finger in the dam at the EP level -- in which case you are dealing with many more individuals. Or you can attempt to stick your finger into the works at the "pioneer" level -- long before EP becomes manifest.
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. <a href="http://www.adl.org/terrorism/terrorism_db/default.asp?valuedb=Attacks">http://www.adl.org/terrorism/terrorism_db/default.asp?valuedb=Attacks</a><br></div><br></div>