RE: Fwd: Did language drive society or vice versa?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 00:44:38 BST

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Subject: RE: Fwd: Did language drive society or vice versa?
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    Joe E. Dees made this comment not too long ago --

    >To sum up, there are VAST differences
    >between OUR language(s) and the communicative systems of
    >other species.

    And regardless of how many dolphins you hug, this looks to be the case
    for quite awhile....

    Yet, to yet the yet yet again, seeing it all as a piece- emerging our
    language from the behaviors of animals, is very, very, right. (It's also
    inescapable, to again deny the improbable any possible footing in this
    universe.)

    And I was about to wonder what human society (containing, as it must,
    language), could exist without propaganda, to force an arrow onto
    speech's bow...?

    - Wade

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