Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (15518)	1/19/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>Well Alex, I guess you are saying that maybe whatever we manage to create for ourselves is what we deserve. Is that right?< Actually, I was trying to address something much deeper than that. I wasn't looking at the evanescent politics of the homeless. I was looking at the evolutionary Big Picture - the idea that money has subsumed the evolutionary authority previously held by being strong, healthy and smart. Ironically, I posted this just before rstarting to read Greg Bear's science fiction novel Slant. In it he treats of a society in which dataflow BECOMES the basis of all currency, with access to services and privileges clearly delineated by financial status. Live? Earn! is becoming the evolutionary imperative (or so reads the thesis). It's this shift in the basic evolutionary mythos that I'm opening to discussion. You posted earlier that you believe that environmentalism necessarily entails a shift of resources to the very poor. I'm missing something here as I don't get it. Please help me undertstand.