Nick writes: << The fact that people become angry because of rumors spread via the Internet is *encouraging*, as far as I'm concerned. It means that a real alternative communications channel is opening up. Friedman might see a sewer, I see fertilizer. >>
I see self-organization of "particles". You lose some, you win many times over. It had to happen, we now have the opportunity to choose the time and place of our disasters. ["It" being the self-awareness of homo sapiens sapiens]. I'm still figuring to live a long long life, maybe 80 or 90 more years.
