WHERE THE EXCITEMENT IS | 2007-01-11
This piece is complementary to the one below on Social Surgery. It starts with a rhetorical question:
There are two countries, A and B. Country A has been wide open to tourists and scientists for a century. Country B has been completely closed to all outsiders for half a century. The question: Which would be more interesting, to be one of the first hundred people allowed into a newly opened- up Country B or to be the millionth visitor to Country A?
Which is why you and I can have FUN. We are going deeply and mercilessly into questions that are as closed as B's borders. Most of you do not remember the absolute ban on ALL discussion of genetics and race. What has happened is that the explosion of knowledge in this area kept mounting up, like a flood against a dam, until it overflowed and is breaking the whole dam.
The most routine discussion we have is infinitely ore interesting than the ten thousandth talk about standard topics. That's why I am so disappointed when someone replies what I say with a standard, tired old canned opinion.
ENJOY it. BUILD on it. The border is down, the land mines are up. Let's GO!