Money may lead to more attempts at procreation...

Post #45,672 by ChrisR 7/15/02 3:18:06 PM Reply	Money may lead to more attempts at procreation... ...but the statistics indicate that those in severe poverty are much more adept at producing large number of offspring.
Post #45,674 by Andrew Grygus 7/15/02 3:31:58 PM Reply	This is an aboration of our times . . . . due to the current extreme cost and legal reprecussions of offspring to the well-to-do. Historically (and prehistorically) the powerful have had more offspring, and their offspring have had a far better chance of survival - thus the evolutionary factors. Our current society has bent and violated the natural order and natural limitations to the extent factors such as sex and power have, of necessity, been turned to uses not intended by nature. Poor and uneducated societies continue in the natural ways in a world where those ways no longer serve, and if they don't learn to deal with the new world order, they face massive die-offs, sooner or later. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #45,710 by Ashton 7/15/02 8:05:45 PM Reply	Except.. re that last - ..they will not go quietly into that dark good night. Techno, ubiquitous: guarantees that those iron gates around the little islands of Wealth: will be as porous as is needed. Or as Omniscient Tom Lehrer so wisely put it ~ a half-century ago: [link\|http://bridge.anglia.ac.uk/~systimk/Humour/Lehrer/An-Evening.Html#GoTogether\| We Will All Go Together ][When We Go] When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.) No more ashes, no more sackcloth, And an arm band made of black cloth Will some day nevermore adorn a sleeve. For if the bomb that drops on you Gets your friends and neighbors too, There'll be nobody left behind to grieve. And we will all go together when we go. [Fanfare!] What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go. ... ... ... sung to a rilly Catchy tune - with bugles and all..

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