[lbo-talk] evo psych: balderdash

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Wed May 4 11:03:35 PDT 2005


Oops, Thomas, sorry, I thought thsi was a remark that was made in the opposite direction, I apologize. jks

--- Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Too vague a criticism of too vague a target.
> > Contrary
> > to the received view on the left, it's not crazy
> to
> > think that the fact that we are biological
> > organisms,
> > specifically primate with the central nervous
> > systems
> > of hunter-gatherers, is likely to do some
> > explanatory
> > work in accounting for our behavior.
>
> I am glad somebody here had the guts to say this. I
> agree.
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
> <<We are at such a point in mankind's evolution
> where changed conditions invalidate all our policies
> that have been so successful even in the recent
> past, and that presumably have constituted the ideal
> response to a presumably unchanging and unchangeable
> human condition. No wonder we are stupefied and
> confused-but our mistake is the same which many
> cultures have made before us, namely to force a
> rigid model upon a fluid reality.
>
> Erich Jantsch - "Design for Evolution:
> Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human
> Systems"
>
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