collective madness

[Minimum]

Someone has sent this through to me taken from a SENScot bulletin, I believe.

'It has always been assumed that the different races evolved separately in different parts of the world – but genetic research has now established that modern day populations in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas, etc – are all descended from common ancestors. The human race owes its existence to a single east African tribe of around 200 people who managed to cross the Red Sea around 70,000 years ago – and who went on to colonise the entire world. They reckon human evolution took 4 million years. From a few thousand humanoids on the African Savannahs – by 8000 BC there were around 20 million of us worldwide – by the time of Christ about 200 million. We reached a billion by 1865 – 3 billion by 1965 – 6 billion by 2000.

If we could shrink this 6 billion to a village of precisely 100 people – keeping the same human ratios – there would be 60 Asians, 12 Europeans, 13 from the Americas and 14 Africans. 70 of the hundred would be non-white; 80 would live in substandard housing; 70 would be unable to read; 50 would suffer from malnutrition; one would be near death – one near birth; one would be a University graduate. Six people would possess 60% of all wealth – these six (all from USA) would be in control of the village. The village would be run on the basis that the richer those six became – the better it would be for everyone – a kind of collective madness. '


What can/should we change - if anything?

[DiscoClint]

We could ask the Americans to stop being so capitalist......but they don't like us very much right now (see Al Megrahi thread).......and they are REALLY proud of their capitalism....even the ones who are poor.

[khartoumteddy]

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maybe on the basis that giant oaks from little acorns grow

our own perception of what is correct

TEDDY