I'm reading a fantastic book by Robert Wright called NonZero. As the website for the book describes it:
'"Ingeniously employing game theory—the logic of "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" games—Wright isolates the impetus behind life’s basic direction: the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals; and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species toward deeper and vaster social complexity. In this view, the coming of today’s interdependent global society was "in the cards"—not quite inevitable, perhaps, but, as Wright puts it, "so probable as to inspire wonder." So probable, indeed, as to invite speculation about higher purpose—especially in light of "the phase of history that seems to lie immediately ahead: a social, political, and even moral culmination of sorts."'
Anyone who has read this blog knows that I am extremely sympathetic to this argument. I wish I had written this book. It's clear that Bill Clinton wishes he had written it as well:
Bill Clinton discussing the book on CSPAN.
Highly recommended. Four stars. Joe-Bob says check it out.