I tend to think that diversity requires, and in turn helps perpetuate, a state of mutual forebearance. I think that there is a commonality of interest that we feel at the genetic level that is periodically drowned out by a similar genetic urge to compete. I hope that you're right, McGrath, about what's to come in the next age.

I think the trick is to use the technology to gain your ends. There is a strong urge toward conformity; I intend to push toward the ragged edges. In my mind the real populism lives in the ditches, not the middle-of-the road.