Received: from mtd.com (mtd-com [199.34.33.66]) by sadie.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA23660 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:06:01 -0400 Received: from winslow.net66.com (root@[206.139.80.66]) by mtd.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA01320 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:05:59 -0400 Received: from mahomet-96.net66.com (mahomet-96.net66.com [206.139.85.96]) by winslow.net66.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA19854 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 06:05:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199604241105.GAA19854@winslow.net66.com> X-Sender: joy@mail.net66.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Joyce King To: eats@peta.org Subject: The future Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 05:13:45 -0400 This is not hate mail, because I don't hate. But you can add it to the hate mail on your depressing web site. As evolution continues within the human condition, violence and hostility are slowly becoming history. Cruelty has been a fact of life from the beginning of the human race, but that doesn't mean it has to always be that way. We are getting better. We rarely crucify people anymore, or even torture them publicly. The concept of human rights continues to grow. Note that we evolved into human rights slowly, and we have a very long way to go. Note, also, that we inexorably add rights as we evolve...classes, women, minorities, now "animals." This is the path of an evolving race that will leave hostility and violence behind it. It will not happen in a lifetime. But it will, ever so gradually, happen. That's why people with hungry egos have to shout so loudly to be heard. Lynching and beating people just isn't allowed much anymore, and you long for it, don't you? Good ole' boys suffering from the "prince" syndrome aren't going to fit into the new species, so you and Rush, and others like you, have to kick up a bigger and better fuss to be heard. But only members of the old species will hear you. Let me explain where we humans are going. We are going to become a race that abhors cruelty in any form. We are going to become a race that uses our inspired intellect to find new paths for life, new paths to mental and physical health. We will not be trapped in old paradigms. Our imaginations will open new doors. In short, we are going to become a race that doesn't feed on other animals, that doesn't rape the planet, that doesn't allow greed to blind us to the needs of others. We are evolving into a race that takes ownership of the needs of others, human and non-human. We are going to become a race that transcends instinctive behavior. We are going to become a race that thinks! The Ghandi's of the world give us a glimpse of what we are becoming, albeit slowly. So, you just keep on shouting. You won't be heard, not really. Beat your chest hard; make noise! Just like the silverback lowland gorilla, you are instinctively trying to make yourself look bigger, more menacing, more violent, more frightening, It's your way of defending yourself against a new way of life, where imagination takes the place of violence, and ego, no longer fed by greed, dies of starvation. Joyce King-- Registered ICC User check out http://www.usefulware.com/~jfoltz