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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (342504)	7/8/2007 6:01:18 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574786

"Darwinism relies on mutation and natural selection, i.e. the killing off of mutations that aren't fit. " Pure Darwinism does. However, pure Darwinsim doesn't reflect current thought. And that is a novel interpretation of "survival of the fittest". "BNW goes a step further and controls the entire process itself according to what society needs." And we are inching in that direction. There are increasing mechanisms for keeping the poor, poor. And the rich, rich. Now the middle class is still sort of squishy, but soaring education costs, soaring health costs, declining access to job paid health insurance, etc. means things are getting more precarious for them. So yeah, we are headed in the BNW direction again. Why do you think Huxely wrote the book? He saw how things were developing, and extrapolated. The Great Compression after the 1930s looked to have changed that. But, it only delayed it...