At 6:09 PM -0700 4/30/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I think where we differ is that I'm extremely pessimististic about human
>nature. It's not that I don't like the idealistic picture, I just don't
>see that it can work out that way.
First, being extremely pessimistic about human nature is _precisely_
why you don't want Throgg the Strongman or Mao the Savior or Hillary
the Know it All in "charge." Top-down rule by strongmen _magnifies_
the negative aspects of human nature.
Second, no one is claiming to know how things will "work out."
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California
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