Step towards fraternité

04/11/2008, Stanford (c) Albatross

It has taken over two hundred years for the motto Liberté, égalité, fraternité to emerge and struggle to fix into the modern civilization. And today, the history took a remarkable step towards the goal when the first colored president of US made his address before the world, in which he also explicitly mentioned "gay and straight". It remains a myth how the generally pro-social and other-regard moral and emotions evolved, but they might be the unique treasure we homo sapiens are pride of rather than any technical innovations we have created.