On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Brian Siano wrote:
> As I said: could you please describe an environment where competitiveness
> would _not_ occur? For all of your claims of knowledge of "massive
> variation" in human societies, you seem to be unable to come up with one,
> concrete example of such an environment.
This is as trivial as asking people to come up with one "concrete example" of gravity. But if you need some obvious examples:
1. family settings, even in the U. S. 2. people reading at a public library 3. Amish raising a barn 4. Hunting and gathering tribe on a hunt 5. Religious rituals in almost every society 6. Jimmy Carter building homes for Habitat for Humanity 7. The Open Source software community 8. Credit Unions 9. Food Co-ops 10. People using public parks 11. Public utility boards 12. "Jigsaw" learning groups in educational settings
Do I really have to go on? Competition is simply not a necessary or inevitable element of social interactions.
Miles