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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (71487)	12/7/2009 3:59:44 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

My theory is that about 80% of people are like that [megalomaniac]. Most of the time, the tendency is kept in check. But watch how when opportunities arise, most people are all too keen to put the Brownshirt uniform on and start singing Sieg Heil. Watch China's 50th celebrations. And the 60th. North Koreans aren't all acting as they join the crowd scenes. Islamic Jihadists really do like to chant Death to America, and they mean it. The Christian Cross is really about the individual versus the state with the individual being crucified for daring to oppose the state. Plus ca change... Christianity was [originally] about the brotherhood of individuals based on filial affiliation versus the totalitarian conquering, confiscating, territorial alpha male hierarchical tribal state and the lack of need for a state to rule the lives of people who could autonomously interact. Before that, right back to chimpanzee times, humans had tribal antecedents but in larger and larger tribes, all operating in the same basic way as chimps writ large. Genetics change [by selection quickly, by mutation more slowly] and the trends are good over the millennia, but there is still plenty of room for outbreaks of chimpanzee-style totalitarian alpha male megalomania and plenty of adherents lurking ready to join the process. Mqurice