I didn't say I thought it could or would happen, Teribus. I don't think there's any chance of it happening. None at all. I was speaking strictly in philosophical and theoretical terms...from the point of view OF a philosopher, and philosophers are free to think about hypothetical alternatives if they so desire. In fact, that's their vocation.

It would take several generations of a radically different social policy driven by a radically different philosophical outlook on the part of most human beings before what I am speaking of could possibly be achieved on this planet...and there is little or no will to make that happen it on the part of those who have the power to make it happen...and little or no awareness of it on the part of those who don't...

So it's not going to happen.

Celebrate, my friend. The world is pretty much the way you think it is, and that's okay with you, right? Great. Like I said, celebrate. You are a barbarian living in a philosophically barbaric society, and you like it. You have plenty of company in that regard, and there will be lots more like you long after you and I are both dead and gone from here, and what you and I had to say about it won't matter.

I just talk here for the same reason you or anyone else does. I like expressing myself. That's it. Period. And I know it. I don't expect it to change anyone or accomplish anything, believe me.