Quote Originally Posted by goesh View Post
From enlightened Pharoahs to Einstein and Confucius to Mother Theresa, the only evolutionary saltation we've seen is the club evolving into the JDAM . Alll other accouterments and wonderous technologies are seconday, even tertiary to the primal drive.That saltation occured because the species cannot exist without aggression. I see no equitable evolution in the tenets of Humanitarianism, Liberalism, Enlightenment, Multi-culturalism, Fraternity and plain old warm hugs and sloppy kisses. Let me be the first to shoot at the tires of Barkow's 'vehicle' because aboard he has fat pack hunters who can no longer run, whose biology accrues them immense reserves of energy (fat) but whose man-made cultural mores prevent them from partaking in the hunt.
We need a quoter at the top of the page to toss these kinds of things into.