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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (32128)	4/12/2005 8:24:01 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Sorry about that. I meant Overmind when I typed Overlord. As for our next step in our evolutionary process, I think that is the overall theme of 'Childhood's End' In the end it failed (which I guess is pretty much what you said). If our next step in human evolution is to create utopia al la 'Childhood's End', the potential exists to achieve some great accomplishments. Unfortunately, it also may create more problems that it actually solves. IMO, it's really no different than the so called peace activists who have a fervent, zealous faith that all war/violence is bad. Many are willing to be extremely hostile & quite violent to make their point. If only they could get everyone on the planet not only to accept the merits to their POV (which vary dramatically from ideologue to ideologue); they also have to have everyone agree to major compromises to their political, religious, cultural & personal passions. And that has to happen before you begin to tackle the myriad of existing disputes on a global, regional, local & individual level. It all sounds so good on paper, but it's impossible to achieve in reality. BTW, this is not to diss 'Childhood's End'. It actually sounds like a good read, albeit, with a sad/disappointing ending.