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To: Neocon who wrote (46951)	5/9/1999 5:38:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Further:Durkheim would love it. This is the sociological aspect of the problem of modernity that I brought up in our philosophical exchanges. Even though tradition persists, it changes character automatically through having lost its "taken-for- grantedness". The social organization of traditional societies, so dependent on the clan and tribe, on the sense of place for the individual, is eroded, and the individual becomes "rootless". Nationalism was, in part, a response to these changes, which is why it particularly grew in the 19th century, to supplant the local character of loyalties and provide a more comprehensive identification...

To: Neocon who wrote (46951)	5/9/1999 11:30:00 AM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

"The Event Horizon"...and The Singularity- Dig, a simple mathematical series, 1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+1/32 +1/64+1/128+, ... You might think that if you keep on adding more terms to the series, each one half the size of the preceding term, you could make the final sum as large as you liked... however, no matter how many terms you add, the sum will never quite reach 2. It will get closer and closer to 2, but never actually get there. The series is said to tend towards a limit (in this case the limit is 2). In a similar way, if major developments continue to occur in shorter and shorter times, there will be a corresponding time limit to our evolutionary progress. This does not mean there will be a limit to how much evolution we can experience...rather, we would find ourselves evolving so fast that we experienced an unimaginable degree of evolution within a finite time... We're accelerating toward...the Singularity!