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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0803_050803_radevolution.html
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> QUOTE: "If you have these three different kinds of humans walking
> around in the next 10 or 15 years, is this going to be a recipe for
> conflict? It's been a long time since we've seen more than one kind of
> human walking the Earth at the same time. Twenty-five or fifty thousand
> years, depending on whether you're going back to the Cro-Magnon or the
> Neanderthals. And when more than one kind of critter starts competing
> over the same ecological niche, it usually ends up badly for one of
> them."
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Hmm..perhaps 'stodgy traditionalists', 'progressives', and the 'have nots'
might be apt terms for these 3 new diverging world groups, and at least in
some respects, perhaps descriptive of certain political affiliations that
define the conservative and liberal viewpoints today [and of course, those
that want to bring it all down, per se 'fundies']?
Much of why I reject the progressives is because I can't 'compete'. It's
not that I feel any inferiority as to raw capacity to comprehend, but more
I
resent the game of intellectualism itself, an investment of time and
energy
that is simply 'unenjoyable'. No one can keep up with all the information
that now exists. But Knowledge is power...and I see it banded about by
'inferior raw minds' far too much these days, but...power is power
nonetheless. I have come to hate 'study'...for it hurts my brain and robs
me of what little time I have to enjoy a thing or two [refer: Maynard G.
Krebs poetic statement of resistance, "Wooorrk!"]. By default, the
progressives win...for they weild knowledge like a new weapon in the
world,
but more times than not, with inferior comprehension levels that ruin
things
for the rest of us.
I'd rather be on the beach soaking up the sun. So, could someone invent
even another group, those that reject all 'social' struggle, who would
rather spend their lives screwing pretty women [from a male's perspective]
and working 'hard' only to enjoy a moment or two while alive? Sometimes I
just want to stand up and give a hardy bronx salute to God and the world
at
large...all that pomposity that would enslave little folk like
myself...yuk!
The University...the worst of all.
So...a 4th group perhaps? One that rebells against it all to sits down
under the shade tree and says "go screw you".
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