<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 March 2012 19:06, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Given human evolved-in-the-stone-age psychology that's going to be a<br>
difficult task.<br></blockquote><div><br>This psychology has served us well as long as it was in place, so I would not be so prone to dismiss it out of hand.<br><br>If anything, I am more concerned about the fact that in comparison to the stone age we are less and less open to innovation and to large-scale civilisational projects: see the introduction of cattle breeding, agriculture, metallurgy, explorations, pyramids, sedentary communities...<br>
</div></div><br>What do we have now? "Rational" economic policies, inertia, and the precautionary principle,<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>