On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, CDale wrote:
> It also depends on what the fad is or what is in style.  (:
DNA's idea of fads is on the 100 kiloyear scale, unfortunately. As long as
current fads don't involve in-vivo rewrite of the genome, homeoboxes
including (now there's a problem for you, homeoboxing the adult), they're
not all that smart an idear.
> Actualy our silly antiquated ideas about relationships and love have
> resulted in the bleedings of many upon many a page (and musical
> instrumnet, and canvas)  What's the problem if we dash a little Mrs.
Art is sure nice. However, if art is our first priority we're kinda
fux0red, if we've set our sight on a sustainable culture.
> Dash on them?  (:  Or cayenne.  Or ginger. (mm ask me about ginger
> root play).
>
> And let me tell you this: just because a child happens to be
> single-parented (what a word), does not mean that child is
> dysfunctional or lives in a dysfunctional home.  The govt/media/church
Our firmware is not built to be single-parented. You can counteract that
somewhat by exposing the kid to a community of close friends, but not too
many do that.
> has tried to make it look like there is a disintegration, when in
> fact, there is a coming together of other family members and friends
> to raise children.  It's not decaying -- it's changing.  Nothing wrong
> with change.
I don't know what exactly is wrong, but something is definitely wrong.
This is way too important to be left to just our intuition of what is
right and what is wrong.
> > At least from the viewpoint of demographics sustainability and
> > counterpressure to gerontocracy and resulting innovatiophobia we're doing
> > something wrong.
> >
> > Maybe we should really go dirty Tleilaxu all the way.
> >
>
> Maybe y'all should buy m-w some more bandwidth.
m-w?

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