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To: silvertoad who wrote (19470)	8/30/2006 11:56:12 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78408

While I agree with your take on Koan's simplicity in approaching the lib/cons loggerhead, there is a germ of truth in what he says that can be gleaned by looking at animal societies as well as human. The status quo does in fact hold back new ideas, because they do not come from the old and wise ones. This is especially seen where females try to be heard. They are dismissed utterly by both man and ape, along with those of the young. The reason for this appears to be out of natural selection for safety purposes, as great changes in society have hidden reprecussions that are not easily pondered. Creativity in this case is a double edged sword, and no matter how hidebound evolution is, it is the by far the safer "thinker". A case in point is Ardery's observation of ape clans where an experiment was made where experimenters puts sand in their grain-feed. A young female ape was able to find first that by washing the grain in the river she could quickly clean it, and the tribe's laborious picking of the grain from the sand was obviated. The tribe dismissed her technique and continued to pick grain out of the sand until a graybeard found a way as well to wash the grain in water. This, we may observe instantly, is the way society operates; taking the ideas that filter up from the mentally energetic and unexperienced young, only whence they finally are reiterated by the "old-bellies", who incidentally also control the purse strings. The exuberance of youth is thus tempered, and decisions not made too quickly that may endanger society. "Liberalism" or synthetic evolution, sweeps away selection and evolvement concepts and without the long periods where extraneous variables may complicate, it eventually and tragically shows the weakness of the brilliant, but ultimately dangerous solution. Changing society all at once to the better path will have to wait until a god-polymath can hypnotize the population into following him into a sea of better solutions. So far we may know that, for instance, such as Hitler's methods, as brilliant as they may have seemed to some at first, are not preferred because of some sticky wickets here and there. EC<:-}