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To: Ken98 who wrote (329)	8/14/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 587

Well put, right on, and cogent analogy. Environmental protection is rife with lessons like this. The pursuit of such protection has brought about much the exact opposite of its intent. Von Hayek called this pretense to knowledge. We do learn from all these mistakes, but there is another problem about it. The lesson learned in Yellowstone is kept for some years until those who know the profundity of it and therefore have a conviction to contend against the return of ignorance eventually die. What they know can only be transferred by records. When transferred by mouth the wisdom is transformed to its antithesis. When transferred by record the knowledge can't be assimilated and so again it reverts to the antithesis of knowledge, superstition. So in either case the hard lessons have to be re-learned the hard way and that takes hard times. Elsewhere, in extremely advanced societies control over material existence is complete and so the hard way is never allowed. These societies eventually die out in a cocoon of ease, pleasure, and protection. When this is understood the value of seeing the self as part of society diminishes. One is no longer inclined to sacrifice for the well-being of future generations. Then the problem of what to do with the self must be addressed. You can do that in the hinterlands of Yellowstone as long as they haven't opened it up for housing development to support the nature protection program.