Keith wrote:
> But it's the environment which has the most decisive effect and if we can
> imagine a highly specialized world (such as ours is becoming) in which one
> meta-class tends to live, be educated, marry and work separately from the
> rest (as tends to be happening in the West, particularly in the UK) then
> there'll be a genetic gap growing between them in due course -- just as
> three or four different types of pygmies of the rain forests in different
> parts of the world are so very different in many ways from the farming and
> pastoral groups living next to them (though they're still the same species,
> of course).

More evidence that the stone-age nostalgics want to take society back to
the dark ages, with a tiny "elite" living in their "gated communities"
and OTOH masses of impoverished bums perishing in dirt and misery.
In a word, the nightmare of a society, and the total opposite of what
the goal of Future(!)work should be!

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REH wrote:
> Keith says strata is built in.   That is very English as we Americans who
> know our history are aware.

That's it.  Keith is to Anglo-centric that he thinks the whole world is
like that.  He should finally grow up to a "helio-centric" world view.

Chris




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