From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:40e5392c.5771799{at}216.144.1.254...
> > Tee hee, I always have to giggle when I see statements like that.
> > I don't think there's ever been a time in the history of mankind
> > when you couldn't have said "new rules for getting on in the
> > world" and "being nice won't work anymore".
>
> Well OK. However, IMHO there really is a new phase in human
> development that has started in the last 20 years or so.

That I agree of.


> Zealots have been able to delude themselves into forming armies
> for centuries.

Yeppers.


> Technology provides a new slant to this old story. While the
> western cultures get fat and comfortable, certain other
> cultures now have communication, transport and weapon
> systems that mean 1000, or 100, or even 10 fanatics can
> cause major mayhem.

My point is, that with the technology we have, the world is getting
"smaller" - now if ever we would have the possibility to show
each other that we're all just the same. That there really isn't
"us" and "them", but just "us". Eventually,
given a few generations (probably quite many, actually), it might just sink
in.

Or maybe not. But I'd still vote for trying.


Antti Kurenniemi

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