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To: paul_philp who wrote (79762)	3/6/2003 12:52:33 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

re: AIDS in AFRICA: <Any other candidates for Ideas that might work? > <Renewed tribalism + a rejection of anything non-African> These memes are UnFit. They have proven themselves incapable of stopping the spread of AIDS. The response of traditional African cultures to AIDS has been a complete failure. Societies that cling to them, will die. They will die, by people adopting other more Fit memes, or by the physical death of their populations. <Successful cure of AIDS> A huge amount of research effort has led to a lot of promising ideas, all leading to dead ends, so far. Even getting a vaccine has proven impossible, as the virus mutates so fast, changing its appearance. And, even if a cure were found, there is the question of whether Africans could afford it, or whether the collapsing infrastructure could deliver it. <emerging democracy (it is possible).> Anything is possible; some things are highly unlikely. Make a list of the characteristics of nations that become democracies, and almost no African nations have anything on the list. <Regional hegemony by richer countries with resources> Maybe, after the present collection of small nations has dissolved further into anarchy.