Dean Forster wrote:
>I admit that most of my opinion has been formed by
>observation in the US. But surely the developing
>nations will not have to go through all of the ugly
>growing pains the western nations have had, making it
>up as we went along.
Hm, no, they seem to be making their own ugly growing pains... seriously,
the premature introduction of fully developed technologies onto the heads
of unprepared civilizations seems to be causing just as many problems as
the slow, miserable sort of stuff the civilizations that created them had
to go through to get there. If not more. Thus, the famed Trekian "no
interferance" principle and all those long, long hours of bitter (and
sickeningly condescending) debate about what tech it is "appropriate" for
developing countries to have. (On a side note, why is it OK for the US to
be armed to the teeth with nuclear missiles, but Horror Upon Horror for
anybody else to have one? Honest, I wanna know. What makes us so much
more responsible?)
Kat Feete
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