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To: goldworldnet who wrote (479464)	3/29/2012 6:50:38 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 793552

Liberals believe.... Stossel recently featured a couple of evolutionary biologists who were also economically literate. They claimed that for almost all our existence we existed in small bands, dependent on tribal unity and a strong leader or council for protection against dragons and competing groups. The only path to anything beyond bare subsistence involved enslaving or plundering other clans. It was indeed nature red in tooth and claw. The consensus seems to be that we've existed in present form for about 200,000 years. If true, 99.75% of out time was spent before a miniscule minority began to learn how to divide and specialize labor and effort. The result was an exponential explosion in knowledge, ability, and material comforts. The potentials of that new social organization have only recently begun spreading across the planet, and that very imperfectly. An obsolete belief structure may be embedded in our DNA. Even folks who should know better succumb to the idea that with enough effort we'll find a demigod who'll bestow universal peace, prosperity, and the creek don't rise. Silly!

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