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Originally posted by ][)ick}{ea][)
I stand outside all belief systems as an objective thinker.
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Respectfully, that position is a little more difficult to attain than you might think. Thanks for wishing me a happy birthday, though
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I think what we're dealing with is a kind of large-scale social entropy (although some will argue that entropy actually develops towards order rather than chaos). But as a system becomes large enough to require a bureaucracy, it begins to show symptoms of the very problems it's trying to solve. I think in order for us to manage civilization on our current scale, we will have to accept some technological intrusion, as much as I find that personally abhorrent. Either that, or divide further into manageable groups--at the cost of greatly slowing overall social progress.