Actually I think Darwin posited it as "survival of the fittest" which actually
has very little to do with physical strength.
Eggheads make the world a much more pleasant place. The problem today is that
we make it easy to be dumb but physically strong. Witness the stupid amounts
professional athletes get paid.
The issue is how do you define "foolish"? Some would say willingly living in
the desert is foolish, why would anyone want to leave the paradise of the
rainforest in the first place? Our foolishness as a species has made everything
possible.
They said first people who drove cars were foolish. They laughed at the Wright
brothers, and the Montgolfier brothers, and Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates. Albert
Einstein never bothered to memorize things like his home phone number...
The thing I hate about our current political standoff for instance is how both
sides seem to think they actually know how to fix anything. Nobody really knows
how to fix the economy, its not like theres a private one to practice on.
-Curt
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:57:58 -0700
From: G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] corn ethanol
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Survival of the specie has always depended on the strong surviving while
the weak perish, but only for the last how many billion years?
Modern wise man apparently has decided that government intervention is
necessary to put nature in balance. The debate is now before us... who will
win.
I know the answer, breed more foolish people.
Grant...
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