Maybe we should establish a minimum age for going to college. Say twenty or so to give the kids a few years in the real world where they’d have to make a go at making it on their own. In addition, how about making all college students get part time work as a condition of attending college? Maybe that way they’d learn the value of thrift because it would be their money they’d be spending.
We’ve been in the singularity since around 10,000 BC. About when we started getting serious about agriculture. We don’t live like hunter gatherers, most certainly not in small bands. For all we limit ourselves to a few hundred folks in our circles of concern, we’re still involving ourselves in the lives of others.
Apropos of which, I saw the Stossel special on how great America is. He makes a good case for the proposition. For instance, Americans by and large donate to numerous causes on a private basis. This, as far as I can see, because of a religion that would not have been possible in a hunter/gatherer society. This faith itself derived from an earlier religion espousing many of the same principles as the later one, but which could never have arisen in a hunter/gatherer culture. In short the adoption of agriculture has produced changes in us we seem to have missed, and be leading sometime in the future to changes we cannot yet see. The Singularity is not sometime that’s going to happen all at once, it is something that is going on right now, and has been happening for something like 12,000 years. Maybe 20,000 years from now our descendants will look back and see an event they will call The Singularity, but it won’t be what their ancestors thought it would be.
Am I a racist? If you wish to think of me as such, then that is your short-coming. Am I uncomfortable around people? That I can plead guilty to. I have Aspergers and it informs how I handle the world and the people and things in it.
I once met a black man who was drunk. I disapproved of his intoxication. He took the time to explain the why. I suspect he took the time because I was disapproving of him, and so treated him as a person. Can the PC crowd say the same of the minorities they now. Do the new bigots even see people of other races as being persons just like them. Think of it this way, A conservative bigot hates the race, but loves the people; a liberal bigot hates the people, but loves the race.
Just recently saw a video on a study on why people do the things they do. Don’t recall the video’s title, but I do recall one point it made (this is an Asperger’s trait in case you’re wondering), that people will do things just for the fun of it that benefits others for no expectation of reward. I mention this because I just downloaded the new version of a mod, as they’re called, for the strategy game Civilization III. I mention it so you’ll know why I’m ending this post here, I’m off to try the mod out and see what has changed since the previous version. Wish me luck.
