From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 00:57:04 MST
Oh, _lor'_!
One can almost always predetermine a pessimistic outcome;
kindly define your use of "too late".
1% world population loss?
How about 10%? 50? 80? 99.9999999 (ca. 6-7 people left)?
"We" never seem to "learn" "our" "lessons" because
1) Every person is an idiot sometimes (weak form of Dilbert Principle)
2) Even being smart doesn't always help
3) New people get born and raised--by people. See item 1.
4) Some lessons seem to contradict others
5) The few people who know it all all know it different.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
"Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
Hegel must have been taking the long view. I know people who can't learn from what happened
today at lunch." --Chad C. Mulligan in Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_
Dossy wrote:
> So, to answer the question: No, we won't learn our lessons,
> and the defenses will be a quiet afterthought once it's all
> too late.
-- My moronic mnemonic for smart behavior: "DICKS" == diplomacy, integrity, courage, kindness, skepticism.
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