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To: Walkingshadow who wrote (6053)	3/6/2005 5:23:47 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8752

I like the science metaphors of course. Let me give you another metaphor that Lynn Margulis beautifully gave in a lecture some years ago: millinachteluchte (my spelling may be off). She first put up a picture of an organism in a petri dish. IT will grow until there is no food left, grow unchecked. Then she put up another picture that looked similar. But it was us. It was human lights at night and the only dark places were the ocean and the desert (although of course the ocean has bioluminescence but we don't 'see' that). She noted that we as an organism were growing too wildly, and using up our resources, and would as a result eventually die out. But she also noted that she had her kids, and wanted her kids to have kids--and that's the nature of life itself. Unbridled growth of the internet without regulation is my analogy here. Unbridled freedom of speech in blogs as well. So I submit by this metaphor that checks and balances are good for unbridled growth and will keep healthy life (and business) going longer.