[lbo-talk] Bonobo you don't (was was Weath Distribution and hot air something)
Shane Mage
shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Apr 30 17:39:16 PDT 2007
Charles Brown wrote:
> Kinship is the organization of relationships between living people based
>on their relationships to dead ancestors...
>...Kinship is central to culture. Chimps don't have kinship.
So, kinship being defined as relationship among *people*, chimps
being defined as something other than *people*, and culture having
*kinship* as its central feature, it follows with uroboric
circularity that chimps have no *culture*.
Shane Mage
"Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
living their deaths, dying their lives"
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
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