On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: >> Some of us get it. But not enough, not by far, not yet .. > > > > Is there any other way to help them to "get it" than to keep > reminding them? > > > . . . ronn! :)
Now on that, I will wholeheartedly agree with you. Reminders never hurt. And it also never hurts to remind people how much more rewarding life would be to live in a cooperative society. (It's rewarding enough to experience little moments of cooperative action among individual strangers right now, just as it is rewarding to simply share a moment of being nice to each other or showing some token of mutual respect. It feels great, and it feels that way for a very good reason.) It's just going to take a lot of work to sell a critical mass of people on it, and get enough of them to believe in it that they can defend that cooperative ideal against the people who are guaranteed to try to tear it down. (I have to confess here that I have a very unflattering opinion of most of my species, primarily because the vast majority of them do not in fact get this basic concept. I hope that the species might learn this lesson while I'm still alive, but my money is on closer to about a millennium from now..) ENGLISH: A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
