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This is stunningly wrong. Human nature is change, the ability to not only adapt to our circumstances but to effect them is the hallmark of Humanity. The chang
by bcoates 14y ago
This is stunningly wrong. Human nature is change, the ability to not only adapt to our circumstances but to effect them is the hallmark of Humanity.
The changing of cultural mores isn't something that just happens, it's something people do. And technology is just the creation of tools to do things. It won't magically make us better, but it does make us stronger when we choose to do good and be good.
He's also mistaken about Communism; it isn't doomed to fail because of some supposed incapability of humans for collective action (counterexamples: every organization ever). It's doomed because it's based on a misapprehension of the scalability of central economic planning.
This was a lesson learned at the cost of many millions of human lives, and it does them a disservice to not learn it.