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• Tuesday, December 23, 2008 09:12 AM

  Fairness, Culture & Darwin's Mistake

  EVOLUTION = state of Affairs + Knowledgeable plan - Setbacks.

  The Web increases affairs (discourse), improves knowing (Wiki) and makes us far more aware of potential setbacks (criticisms).

  PLEASE HIT RESET BUTTON TO RESUSCITATE THINKING SANS CYNI-SCHISM.

  Crichton was right, Andromeda Strain, about humanity's plight. If our netCommune fails to develop any resources to deal with setbacks, then nature will have her way with us. I have been introduced to Nature, and she is one great bitch of a fiery decisionmaker, relying upon a history and plot that easily extend beyond the skill of any single human - but perhaps not so out of reach of an impending future where people construct a universal civilization determined to exist.

  Global warming, tyrants, murderers and pandemics will be held at bay by the evolutionary selection of useful, simple fixes. One step at a time: Darwin observed and believed this to be so. How large each step? Well, that is simply a matter of talk on the web, unbelievably huge transformations in only one generation totally anti-Darwinian in scale, and of course the usual eruptions around and about the village.

  Let's not get upset by terrorists or tsunamis - we have always recovered sufficient to develop the Next Step. Discussion may inadvertantly lead to discovery, thus justifying all the waste on the web - as well as offline where killing time, defeating justice, casting fate to the wind and so on.. recur randomly. Human culture promotes it all. Amen.

  —jk rowling Read jk rowling's other letters
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