The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example...

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.