Dollar a gallon gasoline

[Bruce Bostwick]

On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:

>> Some of us get it.  But not enough, not by far, not yet ..
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> Is there any other way to help them to "get it" than to keep  
> reminding them?
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> . . . ronn!  :)

Now on that, I will wholeheartedly agree with you.  Reminders never  
hurt.

And it also never hurts to remind people how much more rewarding life  
would be to live in a cooperative society.  (It's rewarding enough to  
experience little moments of cooperative action among individual  
strangers right now, just as it is rewarding to simply share a moment  
of being nice to each other or showing some token of mutual respect.   
It feels great, and it feels that way for a very good reason.)

It's just going to take a lot of work to sell a critical mass of  
people on it, and get enough of them to believe in it that they can  
defend that cooperative ideal against the people who are guaranteed to  
try to tear it down.

(I have to confess here that I have a very unflattering opinion of  
most of my species, primarily because the vast majority of them do not  
in fact get this basic concept.  I hope that the species might learn  
this lesson while I'm still alive, but my money is on closer to about  
a millennium from now..)

ENGLISH: A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other  
languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.