[lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick

[wrobert at uci.edu]

Actually, our existence as physical objects is also profoundly socially
conditioned.  Simple questions of access to food and water have profound
social dimensions, as well as our environment (particularly during and
after the industrial revolution.)  These social factors have a fairly
profound effect on what our body is, and what it is capable of (This could
be expanded to discuss modes of labor, modes of kinship, etc.)  robert
wood
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> We're not just physical objects.  We are people with identities, values,
> attitudes. and language, and all of those integral elements of our lives
> are the products of social interactions and social forces.  The banal
> statement that we have physical bodies does not change this basic social
> fact.
>
> Miles
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