Jed wrote: "In real life a turtle would never challenge a rabbit to a race, because turtles and rabbits do not talk, and they don't compete or care what the other does."
Jed, you take all the fun out of bed-time stories. -mark From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 1:39 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Society changes VERY quickly sometimes James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: Frog Pot Water Heat Actually, that is a fable. Frogs jump out of pots as soon as the water gets warmer than they prefer. It is a fable, but a useful one! It is like one of Aesop's fables -- you know they are not true, but they teach a valuable lesson. In real life a turtle would never challenge a rabbit to a race, because turtles and rabbits do not talk, and they don't compete or care what the other does. In the book "Collapse" J. Diamond discussed how social collapse tends to creep up on societies, decade by decade. Older people who remember how things were better die off, and the next generation takes the bad situation for granted, and makes it worse. That is how they ended up cutting all the trees on Easter Island. That is why, for example, here in Atlanta we have places like Buford Highway where dozens of pedestrians are killed by traffic, because there are no sidewalks or cross-walks and people get off of buses to cross the road to apartment buildings. It was originally a rural road. They built the apartments and attracted low-income people gradually, over the last 40 years. Now they are finally doing something about Buford highway. People do not always let these things slide indefinitely. - Jed
