Cabaret Voltaire
But first a word from our sponsors. Yesterday’s dilemma was the world depicted as a village of a hundred people. That a few people have most of the money and control most of the resources can be seen as an implicit criticism of such unequal ownership. I couldn’t help but note that this really is how Nature seems to do business, although perhaps with less disparity between the haves and have-nots. Chickens really do have a pecking order. It’s in the nature of all animals to acquire as much as they can to the detriment of (intentionally or otherwise) others lower down the pecking order. But it struck me that when the developed world was developing, there were no international aid agencies. Plague, famine, war and death turned up without the UN following behind them. While the developed world bears much of the responsibility for the environmental mess the world is in, it seems that the developing world isn’t interested in learning lessons from our mistakes. They (like many of my students)...