Interesting article, O'Tink...opened easily on my old laptop! The title, "The Basic Grossness of Humans," is something of a quandary for me...because I also have been surprised at the apparently base level of our common denominator.
However, growing up in 1950's logging community, definitely working class basic survival, I would have expected that would be at a relatively low level of refinement but now I see we were not! Maybe it was just the small size of the community? But there was nothing of the grossness that seems so prevalent over the Internet...
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Anyway, I used to have a dream of the Internet as a route for people to learn from each other worldwide, to bring out the best in ourselves...moderated by people like Rooster, Angela Anthony and SherryA (from Ask.com) and yes, that does seem to be happening small-scale here on SOLVED, it's a lovely site!