[lbo-talk] RE: literacy

[Chris Doss]

picking up on carrol's point, this tendency in the west can be traced back 
to the garden of eden story, which is to say a long way back -- at least 
10th century bce, and the story's probably much much older than that. 
interestingly, though, many of the biblical writers understood the early 
behavior of the hebrews/israelites as negative examples -- they're 
"stiff-necked" and always doing stupid things like making golden calves.
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The "the country is going to hell" motif was a recurring theme in Ancient 
Egyptian literature, the so-called "literature of pessimism," alongside love 
poetry and religious writings. It's not just Judeo-Christian.

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