Doug Pensinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> But we're not
> ready for the Culture. The rather pitiful attempts at
> communism are ample
> proof of that. I really wonder if we will get to the point where
> "intelligence surpasses the blind force of evolution" and "conscious
> cooperation" annihilates "feral competition."
I think it just might take Culture-level technology before it happens.
Until the vast bulk of participants in a society are effectively having
full-time leisure and all their needs and wants catered to there will be
competition for resources. I don't see the Culture as portraying
conscious cooperation more explicitly than merely a lack of feral
competition. The cooperation - working for shared goals - is the kind of
thing we do now working on large projects. And competition still exists,
it's just that the more basic stuff we're more familiar with today has
been eliminated.
Joshua
