"...they are gregarious without being social, just as we...are social without being gregarious."

Said, by one of a race of intelligent bears who have recently encountered a race of intelligent primates, in Isaac Asimov's story "No Connection" (1948). It would be hard to sum up the damned human race in fewer words than "gregarious without being social".

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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