At 05:12 PM 2/6/2007, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I think Eugen (channeling William Gibson) put it well when he called money
a consensual hallucination. The question that Zainab is asking can also be
restated this way:
Or as DNA put it:
<snip>
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the
people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were
suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with
the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the
whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them
were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in
coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even
the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the
oceans.
</snip>
Bharath
