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Originally Posted by cutter
The sooner the extremists overstate themselves, the sooner they fizzle out for a solid 20 years or so, until the next generation tries to revamp it before realizing it's all B.S., then they can deal with the next generations learning curve.
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You've really nailed it there, cutter. They collapse like communism and all the other wandering ways. It gives you faith in humanity, doesn't it. It would be so much easier if all this crap would just disappear from our genetic code but we are still not far beyond cavemen and our negative impulses cause many to stray from the path toward common good. If you study history it seems pretty clear that humans are getting better at reducing these traits, but that may have more to do with standard of living than anything within us, I'm not sure. Compare Europe today with the previous 2,000 years; North America today with its 2,000, etc. We are making improvement. Most likely, it is a combination of things: like national borders, democracy, synergistic economies, intermarriage and migration, on and on.
Some people move along a little faster on the evolution trail. They are usually refered to as "progressives".
Then there are knuckle draggers; who may look like a chimp with pointy ears, that can't really talk very well, but manages to attain a high position in government. Letting others do the fighting and praising them as heroes is another trait.