Here in Chicago the police cars are emblazoned with the motto, Serve and Protect, and the left and the minority communities ask, serve and protect whom? So, same question, freedom and dignity for who?
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> I don't know that much anthropology, but I also
> don't
> know of any tribal/aboriginal society that aspires
> to
> anything like the degree of human freedom and
> dignity
> embodied in liberal ideals. (And rarely realized
> even
> in part even in those.) It would be surprising if
> they did, those aspirations being a late development
> of a highly articulated modern society. I would be
> happy to hear counterexamples, but it is only a
> matter
> of academic interest. Stone-age social organization
> is
> not a real possibility for us short of atomic or
> ecological catastrophe.
>
> ---
> Justin, I'm on your side in this, but I think EVERY
> society has striven for freedom and dignity, as
> those
> concepts were understood by whatever group was in
> power at the time.
>
>
>
>
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