From: Bruce Howlett (brucehowlett@northnet.com.au)
Date: Fri 22 Nov 2002 - 23:54:45 GMT
Need a definition of "usanians".  Not in any dictionary I can find!
Regards,
 
Bruce Howlett
 
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Drew 
  To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk 
  Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 10:34 AM
  Subject: Re: Islam and Europe and Joe
  Nice piece Wade.
  > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:59:18 -0500
  > From: Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
  > Subject: Re: Islam and Europe and Joe
  > 
  > 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
  Regards
  Steve
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