Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes: > DDB said: > > >It's going strong *here*, and in a lot of third-world places, but it's > >remarkably dead throughout the rest of the developed world. We're > >kind of an outlier. > > Yeah, but the rest of the developed world (Europe, yes?) only > represents a few percent of humankind. You apparently believe that > they indicate the direction that the rest of us are going in; given > enough time and resources. Yes. Developing out of savagery into civilization and then into modernity seems to consistently involve shucking that nonsense. > Maybe. We are, after all, talking about the future. > You've made me curious, though. What is *their* answer to "why, why, why?" The obsessive need to know "answers" to meaningless "questions" is (and should be recognized as) a personality disorder. We'll eventually learn to treat it, and root out the memes that lead to it. My need to believe in goals, order, and a direction to evolution (for example) impose no obligation on the universe to actually work that way. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info