Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA22518 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 2 May 2002 15:09:34 +0100 Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 07:04:36 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: future language To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3CD14774.CBCB831@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en,ja References: <570E2BEE7BC5A34684EE5914FCFC368C10FC91@fillan.stir.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Vincent,
> I don't see much loss in subsistence living, mythico-religious
> social systems, or a range of practices that some peoples follow, and I
> wouldn't want to perpetuate some people having to live like that so that
> others can enjoy the benefits, even if, or rather especially if, some of
> those people are merely external observers (like western anthropologists
> enjoying the pacific sun).
It is not that we get so much benefit from people living like that, and
it is certainly not that they *have* to live like that. The situation
now is that some people, and indirectly, we, to some extent, benefit
from destroying the habitat of those people, relocating them, and
exploiting the resources of that environment.
Best,
Bill
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