Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA26769 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:40:44 GMT Message-ID: <570E2BEE7BC5A34684EE5914FCFC368C10FB9F@fillan> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Rumsfeld Says He May Drop New Office of Influence Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:34:29 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
<I took your comment about not romanticizing indigenous peoples as a
call for
> objectivity. No matter from which part of the globe one stems, if the
> human
> psyche is taken to be universal, all human groups are potentially
> bloodthirsty and exploitative, given the proper historic circumstances and
>
> means at their disposal.>
>
> Yep, objectivity is what I was on about. The noble/savage human in the
> state of nature, the Rousseau/Hobbes conflict, to me is a misnomer.
> Humans are capably of social and anti-social behaviour, acts of both can
> either be remembered/recorded or forgotten/erased. And as you say
> circumstances or environment can influence the extent of behaviours one
> way or the other.
>
> Vincent
>
>
>
>
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