How to fail in survival for very rational reasons

Quite a read.
The post provides many facts and truths. It also opens the door to quite a-bit of thinking and critical analysis, which is very healthy.

I'll have to admit that the reading was slowed by a need to digest, and adjust to, unfamiliar terminology.

In wasn't difficult, while reading, to form comparisons between some of the examples given, and events taking place today. However, I'd prefer some digestion time before passing further comments.

I must add: Thank you for your time, as this must have cost you a considerable amount.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

I must add: Thank you for your time, as this must have cost you a considerable amount.

Nah, it's hobby. A couple of evenings and every evening one or two quarters of an hour - et voila, there you are.

[Schroeder]

Wow, I managed to read it all.

Actually I guess the current problems can almost all be explained with a single word: Greed.
Greed is the reason for lobbyism.

Greed is the reason for not reacting (reacting is usually painful both to the citizens as well as to the leaders who want to be re-elected, best example is our new government and their mad idea of lowering taxes while announcing to make 100 billion € new debts next year.).

Greed is a reason for most wars (I want to rule, I want to own, I want those resources, I must be stronger than the other....etc.)

Now combine greed and convenience and you have the perfect "let's go on as we always did" scenario.

Just my spontaneous 2c.

[FIREWALL]

I'm going to copy and print it out.

[NeonSamurai]

Good read SB, I don't have any major criticism so far with my first reading.

Its also nice to be able to read what you write with out tripping over all the typos and other stuff, but you might wanna consider breaking your - key (or hitting your word processor editor) as there are many words that have - in them when they shouldn't.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

Good read SB, I don't have any major criticism so far with my first reading.

Its also nice to be able to read what you write with out tripping over all the typos and other stuff, but you might wanna consider breaking your - key (or hitting your word processor editor) as there are many words that have - in them when they shouldn't.

That - is because of the forum software messing up text format. I typed in Words, from there I need to copy to Wordpad (else you guys would not be able to read the text coloour, and from there I copy it to the board. Unfortunately, the way Words separated words at the end of the line automatically, does not get filtered out in that procedure.

Only on some occasions, I indeed do not know the correct writing indeed (longterm or long-term? it's or its? yourself or your self?). Some things i will never learn this late now.

I must confess usually I am lazy and just do not correct my typos resulting from typing too fast. No excuse for that, i really should spend some more time on that.

Anyhow, more stuff to come in the future - but not soon.

[NeonSamurai]

long-term, it's means "it is" and its is possessive (its stuff), and yourself, are the usual usages.

Anyhow this is what I was referring to: mo-tives, gen-eral, re-fuse, etc. Which made me wonder if your word processor was glitching.

Not meant as a criticism though, your capability with English is pretty close to perfect.. when you write carefully anyways.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

Anyhow this is what I was referring to: mo-tives, gen-eral, re-fuse, etc. Which made me wonder if your word processor was glitching.

No, no glitching, these words were automatically separated because they stood at the end of the line. When copying the content to wordpad, the format changed, but these separations were carried over nevertheless.

Somewhere it can be switched off in the menues, I assume, so that no words separation takes place. Messes up the visual appearance of the text in Words, though.

Empty lines for example also do net get properly carried over. I have to enter two empty lines in words in order to get just one empty line in the forum software.