POGROMS In our efforts to improve on Mother Nature and natural selection we seem to fall into two camps both of which lead to disaster. The first camp decides it wants to help mother nature in the natural selection process. They of course elect themselves as the fittest and proceed proactively to select out everyone else. This leads to the holocaust and other atrocities of the past. The victims here are obvious. The second camp decides it wants to oppose mother nature in the natural selection process. They elect EVERYONE as the fittest and proceed to proactively make sure that no one gets selected out. The victims here are those burdened with the survival of others. The pendulum swings as the victims of each pogrom react by trying to elect themselves into protected species status. Many groups at this time are lobbying for protected species status. Homer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homer Wilson Smith News, Web, Telnet Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 E-mail, FTP, Shell Internet Access, Ithaca NY homer@lightlink.com info@lightlink.com http://www.lightlink.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail to majordomo@lightlink.com saying unsubscribe commons-L To unsuscribe from commons-L subscribe commons-L-digest To subscribe to the digest subscribe commons-L-announce To subscribe to the annnounce only list index commons-L To get index of archives get commons-L 199801 To get a specific archive