Well, you always get "interesting times" when someone tries to force ideology over common sense and nature.

An historical example that jumps to mind was the very brief experiment the fledgling USA had with allowing soldiers to elect their officers. The War of 1812 showed them why that was a bad idea. Kudos to them for at least trying to put their philosophy to work, though.

And as they also say, history doesn't so much repeat, as it does rhyme (and I envision it as a kind of spiral).

There's an interesting article about how they tested rats and humans at tasks that needed different kinds of thinking. One test involved following a definite set of rules, the other involved mostly using "fuzzy logic" and common sense. Turns out the rats did just as well in the test that used rules, but in the second case, the rats did better than the humans. I can try to dig it back up if you want. But it does back up my theory that humans are just good at technology, but horrible at everything else/that technology is for piss-poor animals that are totally maladapted to their environment and need technology as a form of super-quick behavioural evolution (a position other species are being forced into today). One uses tools in order to overcome physical shortcomings, after all. The human emporer has no clothes, and if technology alone makes a master species, then whites did nothing wrong to their two-legged technogical inferiors.

Well, you always get "interesting times" when someone tries to force ideology over common sense and nature.

An historical example that jumps to mind was the very brief experiment the fledgling USA had with allowing soldiers to elect their officers. The War of 1812 showed them why that was a bad idea. Kudos to them for at least trying to put their philosophy to work, though.

And as they also say, history doesn't so much repeat, as it does rhyme (and I envision it as a kind of spiral).

There's an interesting article about how they tested rats and humans at tasks that needed different kinds of thinking. One test involved following a definite set of rules, the other involved mostly using "fuzzy logic" and common sense. Turns out the rats did just as well in the test that used rules, but in the second case, the rats did better than the humans. I can try to dig it back up if you want. But it does back up my theory that humans are just good at technology, but horrible at everything else/that technology is for piss-poor animals that are totally maladapted to their environment and need technology as a form of super-quick behavioural evolution (a position other species are being forced into today). One uses tools in order to overcome physical shortcomings, after all.

Well, you always get "interesting times" when someone tries to force ideology over common sense and nature.

An historical example that jumps to mind was the very brief experiment the fledgling USA had with allowing soldiers to elect their officers. The War of 1812 showed them why that was a bad idea. Kudos to them for at least trying to put their philosophy to work, though.

And as they also say, history doesn't so much repeat, as it does rhyme (and I envision it as a kind of spiral).

There's an interesting article about how they tested rats and humans at tasks that needed different kinds of thinking. One test involved following a definite set of rules, the other involved mostly using "fuzzy logic" and common sense. Turns out the rats did just as well in the test that used rules, but in the second case, the rats did better than the humans. I can try to dig it back up if you want.