Okay, back to my discussion with myself ;-)
> This, of course, a tendency only. But it's sufficient and it surely
> kills innovation. I wonder how much further this tendency will go.
I always found it hard to swallow when SciFi authors wrote about "old
degenerate races". Not only Dr. Brin; it als
Ok - my take on it is that "old, degenerate" refers to the institutions of the
culture, not the biology of the race, and that those institutions strangle the
energy and desire to innovate of most bright people in the cradle.
First of all, there would be widespread corruption, and probably abso
On 11/20/2012 4:35 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
BTW, my doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan involved
banking and monetary issues. One
of the best lessons I learned was that people who really understand what
they are talking about can say >it it plain English.
Well, that just makes y
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Kevin O'Brien wrote:
> So at this point I can only conclude that the Republicans are congenital
> liars.
You are wearing selective blinders. All politicians are liars.
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>> So at this point I can only conclude that the Republicans are congenital
>> liars.
> You are wearing selective blinders. All politicians are liars.
But not all are congenital.
Luckily, most voters do not care if the lies are plausible or at least
delivered convincingly.
- Klaus
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Klaus Stock wrote:
>>> So at this point I can only conclude that the Republicans are congenital
>>> liars.
>
>> You are wearing selective blinders. All politicians are liars.
>
> But not all are congenital.
Ha!
> Luckily, most voters do not care if the lies are p
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 Kevin O'Brien wrote:
> > So at this point I can only conclude that the
> Republicans are congenital liars.
> You are wearing selective blinders. All politicians are
> liars.
> But not all are congenital.
> Luckily, most voters do not care if the lies are plausible
> or a
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Klaus Stock
wrote:
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> But now I wonder if we haven't already reached the goal of becoming a
> "degenerate race". Progress mainly happens in marketing, not in
> research and development. And while we have a lot of "hero material"
> in our population, none
