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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