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But It Is A Delightful Challenge To Try To Depict Interesting Aliens.

Self-righteous People Can Talk Themselves Into Forgetting They Are Part Of A Civilization. They Can Then Feed On That Culture, Bringing It Down. It's Happened Many Times In The Past. It Could Happen To Us.

Learn To Control Ego. Humans Hold Their Dogmas And Biases Too Tightly, And We Only Think That Our Opponents Are Dogmatic! But We All Need Criticism. Criticism Is The Only Known Antidote To Error.

The Three Basic Material Rights -- Continuity, Mutual Obligation, And The Pursuit Of Happiness.

I Would Normally Never Set Out To Write A Trilogy.