david brin is one of my heroes. “the postmodernist belief system is a wrong as that of those that the end of the world is imminent, based on someones acid trip 2000 years ago.” “don’t you always get the criticism you need? god bless america.” he recommends my acquaintances ramez naam’s new book, “better humans”. talks about caloric restrictions. “it wont be as easy for humans.” humans are already methusalems. 3 times as many heart beats as other mammals (rate of heartbeats, mice vs elephants). why aren’t monks reaching 250 years of age? haven’t they been doing caloric restriction for 6000 years? why are we able to be looking towards a golden age in the future now? god asks us a favor “name all the beasts”. taxonomy anyone?
reds vs blue: rural america declared war on urban america. never have so many republican leaders spoken out against the republican runner. “romantics (farmers) do not have to be grateful” every square block of manhattan should adopt a small town in ohio. “no one wants their beliefs to be the result of propaganda.” brin asserts that all hollywood flicks have “sticking it to the man” propaganda.
everyone, reps and dems, are worried about undue accumulation of authority. insatiability: people cannot be made happy by getting what they want. why are all romantic stories (lotr) showing kings, and not democracy in action? democracy is unprecedented.
danger: from “viruses” to viruses once pimple faced teens have access to biotech. do you want to be served by angry teens with access to that stuff at mc donalds? thanks for robots.
shouldn’t we, as the new kid on the block, think twice about sending out messages into space? all SETI people only believe that aliens are benign. human history and nature is filled with predators. a satiated society considers dolphins fellow citizens and goes on to rescue them from the beaches.
exolarium: “put your own alien into the galactic terrarium”

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