[mchannon]

Call me crazy, but I think H.G. Wells' prediction of the human race diverging into two is less than half as crazy as it was 10 years ago.

One race, indoors-oriented, tribal, authoritarian, amoral, warlike, domineering.

Another race, outdoors-oriented, disorganized, vain, self-obsessed, subjugated.

I bet you will have minimal difficulty envisioning every person you know and which track they're on.

That's more of a 1000-year prediction than a 10-year one.

The Time Machine predicted spinning "history rings" that produced sound (CD's), and Wells' other works were equally prescient considering they came from the 1800's. Morlocks and Eloi were dismissed as simply wrong, but perhaps they were merely further ahead than the critics could see.

[PopeDotNinja]

> the human race diverging into two is less than half as crazy as it was 10 years ago

Any thoughts on how that would happen? Genetic engineering? Divergent populations? Earthbound and formerly Earthbound?

[mchannon]

It's not would happen, it's is happening.

The difference is preexisting, but only beginning to get expressed. Some people resist authority and don't believe what they're told, and some people crave authority and want to be told they're right. It's not an insult; it's actually probably an evolutionarily superior approach to tend toward the latter. Tribes have distinct advantages.

Increased CO2 levels, indoors and out, are giving rise to increased levels of Oxytocin in everybody's body. It's more a tribal hormone than a bonding hormone. This is where the increased expression is coming from, I believe.