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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (72428)	2/8/2010 7:21:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

ElM and I have common ancestry, so it's not surprising that we have similar ideas at times. Contrary to popular ideology, ideas are partly genetic. We are programmed by DNA to be responsive to certain stimuli. That's why we like tinkling streams of water, blue sky, green leaves, flowers, warmth, the odd warm shower of rain. It's why males bump into lamp posts while ogling females. It's why dogs see cats and have a compulsion to start chasing them. It's why cats see birds and mice and feel the need to pounce. We are mental prisoners of our DNA. Much of what is called thinking is really just our DNA having its way with us. Imagine the carnage if people could just think any idiotic thing that's available to think. Worse still if they were not genetically dissuaded from acting on the screwball ideas. It's much more reliable to just run a programme and avoid thinking altogether. Unfortunately, Helen Clark and her Helengrad coven and acolytes got the silly idea that it would be better if nobody did thinking other than them and we just handed over our money and did as we were told. Fortunately, we have still got democracy and she was told to get a job more suited to her talents, preferably overseas where she could waste $billions of OPM instead of ours. Mqurice