Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA06767 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:51:37 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Media and Violence Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:20:54 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F309Z3e6Vxqbyt7gzvO00002c08@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Apr 2002 22:20:55.0139 (UTC) FILETIME=[4D123330:01C1EBDE] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Philip Jonkers" <philipjonkers@prodigy.net>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Media and Violence
>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:30:04 -0700
>
>Wade:
> > Rome, like other civilizations, was not desensitized to their spectacles
> > of violence and death, they _wanted_ to see just that. The audience was
>a
> > living and enjoying entity in these pageants of blood.
> >
> > The bull fight is a pale imitation.
> >
> > The appetites of the human species are strong, and should never be
> > discounted.
>
>Nature is `red in tooth and claw'. Humans are part of nature, therefore
>humans
>are `red in tooth and claw' too.
>
>
What portion of "nature" even has teeth or claws? Funny how metaphors paint
the world in images which we can easily relate, amniotes that we are.
I could just as easily say nature is green in leaf and blade (or chloroplast
better yet).
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