Todd Moody wrote:

> 
> Sorry, but your experience isn't normative either. You are one
> person, with one set of experiences, just as I am one person, with
> one set of experiences. The difference is that you believe that your
> experiences are normative for the entire human race.
> 


My experience agrees with that of polar explorers and others, as well as 
many thousands of aboriginal Americans for countless centuries.

Sometimes I think that the human race is a minority.

William