People raised by dogs and wolves probably don't count as independent thinkers either. They tend to act kind of, well, wolfy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyqbnDjId7g
--- On Sun, 7/19/09, Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Abolition as self-help
> To: "lbo" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 3:01 PM
> Carrol wrote
>
> "Absolutely. The only independent thinkers are those who
> were abandoned
> as infants and raised by wolves in isolation from human
> culture. From
> the time a baby's mother begins to babble back to its
> babble the baby's
> mind has been entirely enslaved. No critical thought
> possible from that
> time forward."
>
> Possibly why Krishnamurti called "free thought" an
> oxymoron. But thought is only a sliver of our being and
> culture touches upon and is shaped by many things outside of
> it.
>
> Joanna
>
>
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