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To: Slagle who wrote (61807)	4/12/2005 11:34:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Slagle, the Dalit type classes, which were everywhere, and worse [outright slavery and cannibalism being common and serfdom was everywhere], came from those days of absolute rule by force by a King and cronies. As democratic and liberty and human equality concepts have spread, those class systems have largely fizzled, though they exist still in even the best societies, now called 'the digital divide' which is really an intellectual divide. Such divides in health, wealth, use of technology etc are usually blamed on poverty or the rich world ripping off the poor, but they are really just facts of life from the intelligence and personality differences in different groups. Low intelligence people rarely have really bright offspring and high intelligence people usually have pretty bright offspring. They tend to live in areas. "Classes" tend to form, though talented or hopeless people can easily cross those divides, be they health, wealth, poverty, digital etc. I can imagine underclasses will continue to arise and I predict an enormous one, as the cyberspacoids, backed by genetic engineering, leave the rest behind. Just as early humans left our chimpoid antecedents behind in the savannah or wherever they were, hopping up on their smarty-pants hind legs and rolling wheels and axes around, with fires to do some transmutation of metals to gold with the really clever ones inventing CDMA and Globalstar. Mqurice PS: I'm glad you enjoy my rants. I prefer, however, to compose before thinking, rather than thinking in advance. Or, more accurately, start ranting and see what comes out. < way too much composition and not nearly enough high quality thinking in advance of the composition. > I suppose thinking must precede composition, if only by a second or three. So I suppose you are right.