Ya, humans are really evolving. Just watch an episode of "Cops" to blow that theory away...

Or, you can turn your head when an ambulance passes, and deny the drama game, this is a control mechanism of fear, instilled in the current paradigm by the power brokers, and those who place personal empire over an equitable, human experience.

Socially, the de-evolution is in full-effect, as is the way of any society that becomes out of touch with environs, fellow man, and basic common sense......

There will always be, as long as their is control by a few,
a predictable element of the base and mundane voyeurs.....comes with limited knowlege and mandatory pre-occupation with pointless toil....

Fascinating. I agree with his views on morality and empathy. Here is his website

http://nonzero.org/

I suppose it all comes down to how much damage a selfish 'zerosum' society, government or individiual (e.g. Rupert Murdoch) can cause. Can they turn back the tide of civilisation if they have enough influence or, more worryingly if their 'greed is good' ideologies catch on with others?

I wouldn't worry to much about that colinr, just watch as the law of diminishing returns starts smacking people around. Basically if you do the same thing over and over again you begin to lose, resources/credibility/ability to fearmonger/ratings over time. In other words, this to shall pass.

i love his debate on what consciousness is with daiel dennet, here - http://www.videosift.com/video/Daniel-Dennet-discusses-atheism-runs-70-min

I hope so Tracon - I just worry that they aren't beyond taking the whole house of cards down with them!

always helps, to reinforce one's *humanitarian *philosophy, from time to time.

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Terence McKenna was talking about this stuff 40 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna

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