[lbo-talk] Ancient societies

[Charles Brown]

We don't need to look at past tribal clans through
ideological filters and pretend there's a more
egalitarian past from which we've strayed. Christians
like to look at the past through ideological filters
when proving Creationism. Let's not do that, too. If
old societies sucked and were undesirable, let's just
say it. Most, if not all of them, were, with maybe a
few semi-decent ones here and there across millenia,
but none I'd rather be in now, thank you. And even
those were permeated with a high degree of
supersttitious belief, which I'm no fan of, either.
The good society has yet to exist, there is no good
model in the past, only hints here and there, more
often in places like Spain 1936 than 12,000 BC.

-B. 

^^^^^
CB: Are you saying that the general scheme I use is more ideological than
the way you describe the past ? Are you saying I'm using ideological filters
and you are using pure scientific analysis ?