(07-11-2023, 03:24 PM)R2x1 Wrote: "Never happen...humans are idiots. "
That is absolutely true, even by our own standards. However, you must admit that we are both proficient and consistent at it.
If we didn't have religion to excuse our folly, we are not short of other idiocy that we can use to divide us up into opposing factions. It has been said that provided we don't manage species suicide we should all Or mostly) settle down in another 6 or 7 thousand years. (The person prophesying this is however often unaccountably optimistic.)
Even without religion I suspect we'd manage to find other ways & means of having a pecking order - we're quite skilled at it, finding differences & all the while ignoring everything we have in common.
(07-11-2023, 06:01 PM)R2x1 Wrote: ^^ Might pay to think that proposal over a bit, bearing in mind that a fair few of those grandmothers have recent experience in the mother-in-law regiment. We don't want that sort of attitude on the battlefield or in governments lest we all become maudlin thinking of the good old days of mere nuclear weapons.
Don't you think that some on both sides are deserving of some spectacularly evil mothers in law....??
(07-11-2023, 05:21 PM)Zurdo Wrote: ''A Committee of Grandmothers'' Kuia should form all governments, and guide the planet.
Indeed; they could hardly do worse.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)