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To: Dayuhan who wrote (24019)	7/31/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 108807

>I think it's true that small communities anywhere are more peaceful than large ones. Interesting to observe that in overall terms of human evolution the large community is an extremely recent development. < I wholeheartedly agree. The dynamics of a village council, where everybody knows everyone else - and a sound character assessment provides needed context for every judgment - don't scale at all well. >It's not surprising that we haven't figured out how to deal with it yet. But as humans are capable of conscious evolution, I suspect it would be a good idea to look carefully at tribal societies, and try to understand as well as observe. < I'm not so confident. With a large society, any central policy or judicial organ becomes impersonal. The unspoken balancer - a knowledge of and trust in the character (or conversely a strong suspicion of the bad character) of a citizen is lost. My Congresswoman doesn't know me. Heck, my town council and local cops don't know me! We need to find some way to reintroduce depth or dimension to the cutout faces of those around us. This'll take a lot of time. Many will resist this for a simple reason. In a big community, I can simply vanish in a way unthinkable in a small town or tribe. In the city, this anonymity often confers a measure of safety, especially from organized hostile communities. (Mafia? INS? Telemarketers?!) People would have to give up this ersatz privacy. I do believe that we are at a cusp - where we do get to consciously direct our evolution. First of course we have to unlearn the historic stigma attached to the idea of eugenics. I imagine that physical/neurological engineering will have to precede social reform. The suspicious, greedy baboon-nature (not mine, of course, but this ugly guy sitting next to me!) will need to be tweaked.

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