BevD has more to say to that

My, you're excitable when your principles and reason are challenged, not to mention your lack of historical knowlege which is frighteningly superficial. Your projections of your own fears upon me is a case in point, your fear of getting older, your own irrelevance looming over your keyboard, it is discouraging, I'm sure. Your silly deflection of a comment made in another thread, which you completely misunderstood, because in your arrogance you think you have all the specimens pinned to the board demonstrates your hardened, cynical view of humans. You could have asked what my comment meant, but you cannot. You have alreadly filed it under "older person who doesn't understand hip, young black poets" (like you do, I suppose) when, if you had not stopped to file your assumption and slam the drawer shut, it might have occurred to you that the my comment was this - "urban poetry?" Why marginalize it, why not call it poetry? Or even call it what it really is - prose poetry.

So once again, I congratulate you on your deflections but you still must answer the questions - whose principles and whose reason will rule humans, who decides what those will be? What happens to those without the money and resources to inflict their will on the people in your brave, new world? Will there be a vote at some progressive website where the majority decides, and who selects those principles and reason which will guide the "new people"? Will it be the fallible individual who spurs all keyboards to type in unison to those principles and reason? And what happens to those who can't afford to donate money or have no access to the internet? Who will represent them and who will represent those who don't think your principles and reason are good and in fact think they might be bad? Like all totalitarians, you truly believe that by eliminating the individual from the human equation you will make society a corruption free, infallible machine in which all citizens think alike, have the same goals and want what you want.

And no, we don't all start out as purely narcissistic, we are a combination of nature/ nurture and children learn from the very beginning the meaning of reciprocity. We evolved as a species not because we were driven by self interest, we survived because we were not. We are driven by an innate need for co-operation and interdependence and knowledge that we each have to ensure our survival. That is why we find crippled arthritic older humans carefully nurtured by our ancestors as well as children with bones healed - someone cared enough to value their contribution, no matter what the burden it placed on the group.