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To: carranza2 who wrote (187298)	11/21/2006 1:03:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 794035

Not just that idea, but the whole collectivist concept: <I often wonder what we could create if we were not brainwashed with this idea of perfect equality > There is vast waste, but at least it's not as bad as 100 years ago. Then, there were only 1 billion or so people, of whom nearly all were living rural subsistence lives of hand to mouth existence and most others at best had production line jobs or clerical or other "get the job done" activities. Not many were in the highly creative business. Inventors were still so few that they could be name. Curie, Logie Baird, Einstein. Nowadays there are millions of inventors and huge amounts of creativity is in action - look at the effort going into creating cyberspace for example. It's the biggest deal not just in human history, but in biological history since DNA first coiled around itself. Even with all the vast quantities of stupidity and waste and active destruction, we are still zooming ahead. And it's synergistically worldwide. Even places like Vietnam, which aren't doing much, are a big exporter of rice. They were supposed to be in Malthusian meltdown, but are providing the digestive basics for hordes of people who are feeding up the food chain, providing the foundation for people like QCOM employees to invent CDMA, which is then shipped back to Vietnam so the local yokels can go straight from the stone age to the cyberspace age without wasting time on steam engines and twisted pair copper phone lines, which then frees the local yokels from rice growing to join the vast cultural revolution which is underway. Mqurice