Wow! So when a majority of white southerners showed up in their Sunday finest to watch the weekly lynchings, that was the right thing?
I guess you mean "right" in some other sense. N -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:26 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] vol 93, issue 22 McAfee SiteAdvisor Warning This e-mail message contains potentially unsafe links to these sites: friam.org What the majority of people do IS the right thing. Wisdom of crowds and so on. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Geeze, Nick. > You can't make people do the right thing. People have to want to do > the right thing. People don't want to do the right thing. (Speaking > in majority terms now, minority exceptions don't count). Things won't > change until people change. When will that be? Not in our lifetime, > people are slow learners, and relatively stupid, statistically > speaking. We're talking on the evolutionary time scale before the > collective good will come before the individual profit on this particular spec of the cosmos. > --Doug > BTW, I'm a realist. Not a pessimist, nor an optimist. Roger probably > understands. And Steve. I kind of wonder about some of the rest of > you, though. > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
