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Old 06-13-07, 06:58 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Maybe there is truth in that the absence of threats and challenges means the end to an evolutionary design, since there is no more reason for ongoing changes, adaptions, and redesignings. the species (or in this context: the culture) simply gets overtaken by reality, is left behind sooner or later, and dies.
No lack of threats and challenges over here on my shore of the Mediterranean yet everyone in government is a dodo and so, too, the masses that voted for them - and it's been so for decades!

Today is another tragic day in the life of the State of Israel: the Knesset has voted in Mister Loser himself, Shimon Peres, as the figurehead president of the country.
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