In a message dated 11/29/03 6:28:33 PM Mountain Standard Time, andrewdj54701@yahoo.com writes: > One other point: The author's evaluation of cultural "success" or > "failure" is not a moral judgement, it's more of a Darwinian judgement. > Successful societies spread their ways of doing things around the > globe, while failing societies must either change or implode. However you (and he) are assuming that "success" is a quality irrespective of environment. This cannot be supported. As an entity's (whether individual, species, or nation) environment changes different factors define it's success. Thus "success" is not a matter of innate qualities but of relationships, and we cannot predict future "success" based on current conditions. > You can agree with the article's opinion or not, but *don't* do the > author the disservice of dismissing him without finishing reading his > work. OK, out of respect to you I've read the entire article. I still consider it garbage. Jefferson http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
