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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (59747)	1/31/2005 2:04:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Mary, criticizing religion and militarism is easy and fun. But optimism? What's wrong with optimism? Okay, the sickly "thinking positive" "anyone can do anything" maniacal optimism seems silly to me. And being optimistic with rampant mysticism and militarism is questionable too - as I rant, the Chinese are planning their Year of the Feather Duster manoeuvres and Russia is in on the act. But by and large, the alternative to optimism is false. The fact is that 99.99999999999999999% of our antecedents' genes and memes have been filtered from the gene pool. They lived their lives, gave it a go, but other than as fuel for the survivors of the biological wars of DNA development, they are not represented in the currently living, though there will be cultural attributes a few of them have created and passed on. Therefore, against those odds, it seems almost absurd to be optimistic and we should think of ourselves as just grist to the mill to support the chosen people. Discussion of glasses half full, half empty and "thinking outside the box" seem equally cliched and thinking inside the box. Mqurice

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