Pete and Glove,
If a meteor strike is a catastophic occurance for biology, and WWII is a
catastrophic occurance for Sociology... What would be an Intellectual
catastrophe???
At 08:19 PM 2/1/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Glove:
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>>We are saying the same thing, I think, in different words. The removal of
>>the social level "protections" as you put it would tend to be a by-product,
>>so to speak, of a catastrophic occurence such as a major impact event like
>>the meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Yes, social comforts
>>have cut us off from biological evolution in the way we socially think of
>>evolution. Nontheless, biological evolution is still occurring; it is simply
>>not making "jumps" at this time, it's merely shifting at a 90 degreeness,
>>which could be viewed as Darwinian natural selection.
>>
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>We should also remember the time scale of biological evolution. I like
>the analogy of homo sapiens not appearing until one minute to midnight
>on a clock where 24 hours represents the whole of life on earth.
>
>Social evolution seems to happen at an exponential rate. In my life time
>there seems to have been much more change in social attitudes and mores
>than in the previous 50 years.
>
>There may not be many new species appearing, but there are certainly
>plenty becoming extinct :(
>
>A catastrophe may not need to be on the meteor strike scale to trigger
>social evolution. Many historians see the First World War as initiating
>a major shift in social values. A global thermonuclear war would
>radically change the fitness parameters for survival of individuals and
>society.
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>Regards
>
>Pete
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