From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: Led4acs@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: The Eye of the Beholder (TAS): my review   
      
   On Oct 10, 10:26aam, Graeme  wrote:   
   > On Oct 9, 10:14aam, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Our own obsession with exploration is an evolutionary holdover from our   
   > > hunter-gatherer ancestors, who were constantly on the move in search of   
   > > new game to hunt and new fruit to pick. aBut a civilization that didn't   
   > > evolve from hunter-gatherers might have a totally different set of   
   > > values.   
   >   
   > That's the problem with evolution. aNot the science part, but rather   
   > all the philosophy and speculation that people try to grandfather in   
   > under the label "evolution". a   
   More accurately, the problem lies with people who speculate and then   
   draw conclusions.   
   The worst offender there was probably   
   > Phlox deciding that evolution wanted a race wiped out. a   
   True. Evolution is not a 'thing' or a prime mover in any way. It   
   doesn't have an ethos.   
   There are   
   > obviously many values we hold that cavemen didn't have, so it seems   
   > kind of silly to say that all the ones we do have in common with them   
   > (assuming that we do at all) must have been passed down in some kind   
   > of mystical process, which accounts for all our values except for the   
   > ones it doesn't. aThat's not really science.   
   Humans were once hunter-gatherers and or nomadic. Steve L maintained   
   that that is why we have our curiosity today, as a carry over from   
   when humans were constantly on the move. Yet humans have been residing   
   in towns/settlements and farming for at least 10,000 years now, yet we   
   haven't lost that desire to umm.... seek out new life and new.... well   
   you get it.   
   And I'm not sure why non hunter/gatherer civilizations would somehow   
   lack curiosity about the universe or even what lies beyond the nearest   
   mountain. It's really about brain development and ,quite to the   
   contrary, when humans started growing their own food and domesticating   
   animals, it actually freed up more time to ponder other things....like   
   art, architecture, tech innovation.... which in turn led ultimately   
   led to space exploration. There are still nomadic tribes on Earth   
   today...and if they have any curiosity about the universe, there is   
   very little they could do  to act on it sitting atop a camel.   
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