"Times change. Generations later, these same cultures usually see current addiction as a mixed blessing. Older sins -- alcholism and drug addiction and compulsive gambling -- cannot compete. People who can be hooked by drugs are happier with the wire. They take longer to die, and they tend not to have children. . .
. . . So that by Louis Wu's time, those who could be enslaved by the wire or by any lesser means of self-destruction had_been_breeding_themselves_out of the human race for eight hundred years." quote from "The Ringworld Engineers," Larry Niven. Am I unduly harsh and cruel to agree with this assessment? Genny (with a grin as she drinks cafine and lights another cigarette). ______________________________________________________________________ Music, Movies, Sports, Games! http://entertainment.yahoo.ca
