[andyfox]

Hi B.R.

I know virtually nothing about biological evolution. But people are not born with religious affiliations. It is politics that makes Jews and Palestinians enemies. Perhaps you are sayiing that once people feel themselves to be part of a certain group, they are hardwired to be distrustful of people outside of that group.

I am in accord with your worry that emphasis on difference then accentuates this process. Thus the need for people to come to terms with, and live with, people outside of their own group. If we allow the separate but "equal" situation that A.A. desires to exist, this will certainly perpetuate, and accentuate, the problem.

I do have some doubts, however, that is is civilization, that helps us. Hunter-gatherers, for example, unencumbered by concepts of poverty and civilization, lived a life of leisure and communism. Perhaps it is us who do indeed need something different.