I'm afraid that ET's narrative is pitting against a cultural mindset dominant at the top of the economic food-chain. (Which is why I dig Chris Cook's analogy of the modern mammals superseding the dinosaurs.)
I'm afraid that ET's narrative is pitting against a cultural mindset dominant at the top of the economic food-chain.
I think we've always been conscious of that. Those are the stakes.
I would dig Chris's image too, except that I am extremely wary of evolutionary analogies applied to social and economic history. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
