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> From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
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> I think the world started to change (at least from the human
> perspective) when one of our prehistoric ancestors picked up a stick
> (Strauss's _Also Sprach Zarathustra_ playing in the background) and hit
> his compatriot over the head with it to get ahead of him in the pecking
> order. -clip-
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> Wojtek
^^^^^^^^^
CB: Did you get this idea from that scene in _2001 Space Odessey_ ? ( Which
is exactly an ape pickng up a stick and rendering it as a weapon with a
seeming implication of some big historical change ) . This would make us _homo
bellicosus_ ? War is not politics by other violent means. War is the essential
human activity.
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