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shonagon53
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selfAdjoint said:So an old fart like me may have lost some IQ points, but might make up for it by knowing a lot of cagy tricks.
Good for you, eh.
Also, I think most people couldn't bare to live with the idea that everything they do, think, and feel is genetically predetermined in some sense. They would refuse to know and keep some mystery.
This is what that old misunderstood chap Nietzsche thought of when he wrote about "der Übermensch". The Übermensch is the one who fully accepts fate as it comes, while the Untermenschen still need religion or other cultural superstructures to cope with it.
I think we will all remain Untermenschen for a very long time. :-)