IS HUMAN NATURE DESTROYING ITSELF?

We have mentioned, previously, the Rebecca Costa book, The Watchman's Rattle; a piece that deals with civilisation's ability to survive. Posing the questions about keeping pace with their own inventions.

Well, lo and behold! The BBC recently came up with an incredible series entitled: 'All watched over by machines of loving grace'. The first programme dealt with the Russian Jewish emigre` Ayn Rand, who arrived in the USA in the twenties. Her philosophy was based on the world's population being one entity, without national boundaries, existing as one global community. The sixties Hippy/Flower Power movement was an attempt at playing out this theory. Rand formed a school of thinkers pursuing these theories; one of it's members being Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve Bank in the US, who practised his global banking views during the Clinton presidency, only to find that it destroyed a number of SE Asian economies. His recommendations had been, that the markets would look after themselves. Europe is currently endeavouring to cover for failing national economies, which is bound to hit the buffers. Chasing the debt is never a good option. These examples are not the same; the freedom as distinct from the meddling of European politicians on the other, proving that both can go wrong, indicating the ups and downs in finance.

The most enthralling aspect of the aforementioned BBC series occurred in the third instalment. This looked in depth at the work of the biologist W.D Hamilton. He, evidently, advocated that we should not tamper with human nature. For example, he disagreed with us defending ourselves against disease, as this obviously flies in the face of the survival of the fittest. Hamilton was sure that the most important consideration was not the continuation of the human race, but of the continuation and reproduction of the genes.

ALL OF A SUDDEN THE NHS APPEARS TO BE SURPLUS TO REQUIREMENTS.