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Originally Posted by ngdawg
Simply put, somewhere along the line we became a society of the haves and have nots with a huge dose of entitlement. Add to the mix our increasing dependency on keyboards and touchpads for our socializing and you start witnessing a society of sociopathic "Gimme it" attitudes with anticipation of immediate gratification.
"Work for it? Huh?"
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Time to cull the herd, huh?
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Pfft! I refuse to use touchpads. I require immediate tactile gratification.
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Originally Posted by ring
If you really believe this
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Nice book. I do believe it. According to the really dry anthropology books I've read, that's how we started... and that's what we'll revert back to when we don't have a couple thousand years of social programming to bolster the cloud castles of what it is to be civilized. Most of what we are as a race is intangible brain exhaust of superfluous behaviors and modern campfire stories. We breathe in the ideas of the past, process them in our current environment with our current belief systems, and attempt to exhale them to the next generation as we depart or are destroyed. A clean break in the chain would put us back to day one. All the useless crap that I have filling my head is mostly applicable to this one intricate reality we've created. There are no innate instincts to be found in our cunning-yet-fragile species, only learned behaviors acquired through endless repetition or blunt force trauma.