[47363] in Cypherpunks
[NOISE] Re: [NOISE] Re: Eggs at Customs (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Jan 17 01:26:19 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:13:27 -0800
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 09:02 PM 1/15/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Morality has nothing to do with it. It's the speed of the evolution. If
>you walk across the straits, the system has the time to react and restore
>a dynamic equilibrium. If you immediately release a new species with no
>natural predators, the system is shattered, and it might not survive.
>This is not to say that ecosystems and societies are static -- they evolve
>constantly, displaying unpredictable punctuated equilibrium (Steven J.
>Gould was right, Edmund Burke and Karl Marx were wrong).
This appears to have happened in North America about 12000 years ago;
a highly competitive omnivorous predator/scavenger species appeared,
and either out-competed or killed off a number of other large predator
species, as well as some of the large grazing species.
Seen any dire-wolves looking through your windows lately?
>Politically and morally, I'm a follower of the realist school (Morgenthau
>et al). It is right for the US to dominate the world because it has the
>most power.
Please don't abuse words like "right" for that sort of thing; it's as
tacky as abusing "one-time pad", and there are other words that will
do perfectly well, such as "unsurprising"....
#--
# Thanks; Bill
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# the government, not the other way around....
