[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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