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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (46521)	2/22/2004 9:25:39 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<< Mary, my theory is the optimistic one. Good always outlasts evil because the evil can only exist as a small subset of the good on which they prey. The parasitic evil doers can only expand to a certain extent, then there is a revolution and the mob converts them to fertilizer.>>> Maurice, I was only joking. I was trying to make the point (in a round about way), I have never met a kid (child) aspire to be an evil doer or bad guy. All the popular kids in school, kids who have friends, want to be the good guy/person. <<< We have already seen the trend in the segmentation of most societies into various classes, with State/King/Emperor/Dictator and their acolytes forming a separate ruling class. >>> Those days are over. The Who (HU) guy in China will one be one of the last appointments to head a legitamit country. A lot of the cyber connected Chinese will be asking Who made Hu Mr. Big. It is only a matter of time. The Chinese leadership have less time then they think. <<<However, there is a question of ethics which becomes a bit tricky. Just as we farm plants and animals, there's no law of nature which I'm aware of which says a Big Brother supertribe couldn't separate from the rest of humanity, become a separate species and be boss of the remnants of humanity. That wouldn't be any more unethical than farming hens for eggs. The hens don't get a say in running the barnyard. I already feel quite like a hen actually. It's not too bad, though quite annoying.>>> Don't worry, Big Brother is on his way, but he is going to have his hands full. Big Brother and his tribe will probably make a run for it a lot sooner than they can actually achieve their objectives. They will make several runs at it before they actually succeed. There will always be some Big Brother type playing the populist card and try to rally the hens. The hens will eventually lose. They just don't have the intellectual bandwidth. Isn't that what the theory of evolution is all about? Mary