From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri 22 Nov 2002 - 17:59:18 GMT
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 12:37 , Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
> international bullying in the form of
> power-based relationships.
You know, I have not been following this discussion, at all, so, this is
only a comment upon this one thought.
From what I know of history, the entire realm of human experience has
always included inter-tribal bullying in the form of power-based
relationships.
As in that piece about chimps I forwarded, it is totally obvious that we
are genetic and behavioral continuations of fierce and unforgiving and
oftimes horrifically cruel primates.
Every time someone makes the claim that usanians are somehow unique and
unprecedented in their 'bullying' I have only to remark that the Maori
were not usanians or even capitalists- but that is only the first of
over a million examples of 'bullying', even total genocide, that were
not performed by usanians.
Guns, Germs, and Steel. It's how and where you are, not who you are,
that determines how far you will wage madness. We're all mad in that way.
- Wade
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