[white rice]

Interesting topic darwinist.

A friend once told me that reality is you, the other, and what actually happens; the power of three. It's an elegant and profound definition. You only know world events from what the media tells you or what your acquantainces tell you on the phone, net or mail. Your choice to make that real is to whether believe it or not. It is still your choice even if you were somehow affected from that event directly (though it is harder to ignore its consequences).

It boils down to choice or the appearance of it.

There's an experiment where you had two dogs. One was locked in a cage while being shocked with no room to avoid it. Another was shocked but could move around to prevent the shocks. When the second dog's cage was opened, he was given a shock again. He rightfully exited the cage. The first dog's cage was opened as well. When given the shocks, he stood in his place even though freedom was right in front of him.

You see the suffering of Africa, and even if you mail some donations, you won't see any great dividends from it. The impact of your choice becomes minimized and you might feel a little helpless. This is all psychology. Helplessess is a very large factor in stress.

Deindividualization is a very interesting thing to study. Protestors who looked at the riot police face to face stood a greater chance of being unscathed from their batons than the majority who were fleeing and had their backs turned.

On a different matter, if governments are selfish men on a macro scale and companies are steadily growing to become highly efficient money making machines, it's safe to say that machines will dominate man.