Brent, my analogy, however badly its thought-up, is to force the idealists to
produce. My idea was to force the idealist back to painful reality and hard
choices, rather then mentally living in La La land. Saying "Oh they're working
on solar and soon.." Unacceptable. Tomorrowland existed no where except at
Disney World. Naw. This is about getting the thinker to be realists, and not
dreamers.
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From: meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net>
To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 9:54 pm
Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World
On 11/8/2013 5:48 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote:
If you hold the Rational Optimist view aka Matt Ridley, people will
act altruistic much more, if they get a reward, then in they get
jack. A dictatorship of your own preference is suitable for many,
but not for most. Plus, think about pure materiality. If a cruel
dictator has his goon point a semi-automatic at each of our heads and
demands of us to immediately produce an energy source that will power
his civilization for the rest of his life,
Easy. Set him on fire. :-)
Brent
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