(March 1, 2013 at 7:12 pm)naimless Wrote: The long term cost-benefit analysis to humanity is very different to the cost-benefit analysis of a politician funded by business lobbyists. Generally the latter have an "exit strategy" or just a realisation that their death is probably coming a lot quicker than the death of humanity.
To agree with the above requires me to accept that lobbyist corruption in Washington is immutable and permanent.
However, given that nations rise and fall on the scale of several hundred years, it's quite clear the even Washington isn't immutable by any sense of the word.
If anything, one would need to look at it in terms of generations and cultural attitudes engrained.
As it stands now, the generation mostly in power has a belief in bargaining, mania and depression.
It stands to reason that the next generation that is passed on a fair bulk of the decision making power is not completely beholding the prior generation's beliefs.
If that wasn't true, then we'd still be wrestling over when to give Blacks the right to vote.
(March 1, 2013 at 7:12 pm)naimless Wrote: In my experience, six year olds are genuinely a lot wiser than adults who are already socially conditioned and have a lot invested in plastic.
Six year old children are variable. They are human.
Humans can learn... when they want to.
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