Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:21:40 -0700 From: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <200208271021.g7RALj190436@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
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George Reid <george.reid@oriel.oxford.ac.uk> writes: > How nice it must be to life in a world so simple that you can obtain > self-gratification simply by masturbating your own ego when people > read and are incensed by your posts. ... > Self-awareness is usually only a feature of evolved life forms. Self-awareness is -rarely- found in any human organization or community. It's like finding ice cubes in boiling water; it's fairly oxymoronic to be self-aware and be a "member" of a normal human community. Those who are self-aware (and others-aware, who said awareness should be limited to the self?) know that "trolls" are a natural phenomena associated with "communities". Both are drawn together in the dance of "community" that passes for normal human endeavor these days, like particle and anti-particle, dancing to annihilate one another in the shifting arena of worldview expression. "Trolls" are merely the anti-particle to the "Contributors" particle. To see trolls as a bad thing is to ignore what brings communities together in the first place. Balance is part of nature. It is not a bad thing. It is not a good thing. It merely is. ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Mind is the faculty, phenomena are the data; both are like scratches in a mirror. When there are no scratches or dust, the clarity of the mirror shows. When mind and phenomena are both forgotten, then your nature is real. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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