From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
Peter Ross wrote:
I expect a "normalised" society to be a bureaucratic one and not a creative one. Genetic selection criteria or modification will amplify this problem, I suspect.
I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard.
It's a while ago that I read Huxley.. Which category are our current leaders? Really Alpha? I wonder whether it is possible to "design" a society where creative Betas are having a reasonable input and Alpha are restraint to listen to them. The current Australian leadership, at least, reminds me of an elected "absolute monarchy" (maybe that's the reason for the Dames and Knights;-) After election the leader is free to ignore all science and reason. I found it amusing when this weekend Palmer disputed Abbott's "mandate" to get rid of climate tax and mining tax. Abbott should do some counting, Palmer reckoned. E.g. the number of seats in the Senate. Abbott would love to have an Ermächtigungsgesetz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 I know, in every discussion is a return to Hitler. Maybe Australia today is a rerun of history as a farce. I just do not like sequels. Always look on the bright side of life.. whistle whistle Peter