--- In [email protected], "hugheshugo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Here's a thought, instead of judging rising consciousness purely
on
> what the dow jones is doing, why not judge it on how many things
like
> this are going on.
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2182952,00.html
>
> Surely any vaguely civilized society would have banned this a long
time
> ago.
>
Surely we would have. The problem with choosing some sort of social
improvement index to gauge rising global consciousness is the same
problem with trying to predict how an enlightened person will act,
much less a society. :-)