Re: Why Europe is so Contrary

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At 07:29 AM 5/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
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>On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 06:13 AM, Jeremy Bradley wrote:
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>> 'Why USAnia is so Contrary'
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>Hey, let's face it- if you were contrary back in the good ole days, you
>were either shipped off to Oz, or you made it here, or you expatriated
>in Paris. Contrariness is a raison d'etre of the USA.
>
>And there ain't really any place to put the contrarians anymore. Welcome
>to the twenty-first century.
>
>Why the world is so contrary.
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>- Wade
>
Now we're getting somewhere, but is it 'human nature', ie from the stick-fighting chimp side of the family, or is it 'human nurture' and we could be peaceful lovers like those other primates that you mentioned once? I still think that we are memetic wariors - conditioned to fight for all kinds of territory. Jeremy

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