Somewhere Between Right On and Thank God
One of the really cool things about the Internet is that if you carry an idea for a post around for a protracted period of time, say 48 hours or so, someone will come along and say it much, much more eloquently than you would ever have been able to:
And what we are going through now is the logical consequence of thinking like monkeys. If we can’t even get though a day without yelling at people on the road, stealing money from old ladies, or cheating on our taxes, cable bills or restaurant cheques, then any hope we have of building a modern technological society is probably doomed. They’re too fragile. They require a high degree of intelligent behaviour on the parts of their citizens.
please, please read the whole Stephen Downes article, and for a bit more on the monkey sphere and the Dunbar number check out Danah Boyd.
