At 09:19 PM Wednesday 7/23/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: >On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > >> Some of us get it. But not enough, not by far, not yet .. > > > > > > > > Is there any other way to help them to "get it" than to keep > > reminding them? > > > > > > . . . ronn! :) > >Now on that, I will wholeheartedly agree with you. Reminders never >hurt. > >And it also never hurts to remind people how much more rewarding life >would be to live in a cooperative society. (It's rewarding enough to >experience little moments of cooperative action among individual >strangers right now, just as it is rewarding to simply share a moment >of being nice to each other or showing some token of mutual respect. >It feels great, and it feels that way for a very good reason.) > >It's just going to take a lot of work to sell a critical mass of >people on it, and get enough of them to believe in it that they can >defend that cooperative ideal against the people who are guaranteed to >try to tear it down. > >(I have to confess here that I have a very unflattering opinion of >most of my species, primarily because the vast majority of them do not >in fact get this basic concept. I hope that the species might learn >this lesson while I'm still alive, but my money is on closer to about >a millennium from now..)
No one said it would be easy . . . :-\ OTOH, we have to keep trying . . . . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
