Not exactly sure who you are accusing of Narcissistic Individualism. My lemma is that the mass of humanity, sensed as a group over time, exhibits an intelligence that the brightest and best educated, acting as an elite in rarefied confines, fail to.
IE: That a Democratic Republic has a better chance of averting catastrophe than an Oligarchy. History tends to prove my point. >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Nick FitzGerald >Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:44 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [funsec] Rage against spammers and telemarketers > >Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > >> The planners: Enarques, Oxbridge and Ivy Leaguers are taking over the >> world, and will give us what they think we need, as opposed to what we >> want. > >And that latter model has worked oh so well this far... > >The problem is (the collective) "us" -- humans as a group are far too >stupid to sensibly decide anything terribly important and as a result >we will exterminate ourselves long before evolution has a chance to >help us or our normally expected evolutionary derivatives. > >In light of this, although it is totally wrong for so many other >reasons, Thomas' narcicissitic individualism probably is the best >approach to adopt going forward as anything else is simply very >slightly delaying the inevitable... > > > >Regards, > >Nick FitzGerald > > >_______________________________________________ >Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
