The Acceleration Factor in Human Evolution

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I don't think life extension is going to make the population problem any worse. People quite spontaneously decide they want smaller families as their general affluence increases. If space moves forward at the same rate by around 2010 there will be 200 million people leaving this planet every year. The population problem so called will disappear like the war of the roses and other parts of history that are no longer applicable to our situation. Tomorrow we'll go further into these ideas and I better warn you in advance into some ideas even weirder. So if your horns won't fit through the door maybe it would be wise to avoid the more sinister shocking and eldritch revelations to come tomorrow. What time is 9.50

Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: February 1982 [NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.] "The belief in certitude, I suspect, is a primate habit." "One thing I want to make absolutely clear is that almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing. . . . because the government is the last place that important change is registered. And so if you're looking at the government you're looking at the past." "Certitude only belongs to those people who own just one encyclopedia." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option