[PEN-L:10394] re: bio-determinism

On Wed, May 28, 1997 at 20:40:00 (-0700) James Devine writes: ... (Bill Lear: I wouldn't see advertising as the basis for sexism: it's only one part of the seamless web of our culture.) Thanks for the Marvin Harris suggestion, I'll have to track him down.

[PEN-L:10393] re: bio-determinism

I wouldn't reject the role of all biology/genetics/evolution in explaining human behavior. However, I would follow Marvin Harris, the anthropological padrone primero of "cultural materialism," to see a revolution in human evolution, where the evolution of culture (including technology) replaced

[PEN-L:10392] International Workers Meeting Confronting Neoliberalism

International Workers Meeting Confronting Neoliberalism and the Global Economy Havana, Cuba -- August 6 to 8, 1997 I think the following information would be welcome by participants on this list. If you are not interested, you know were your delete key is. Following are the International Call

[PEN-L:10391] International Workers Meeting Confronting Neoliberalism

International Workers Meeting Confronting Neoliberalism and the Global Economy Havana, Cuba -- August 6 to 8, 1997 I think the following information would be welcome by participants on this list. If you are not interested, you know were your delete key is. Following are the International Call

[PEN-L:10390] Re: Umbrage

Paul Phillips and I could go back and forth to no avail -- "yes it is", "no it isn't" -- about whether the Alexa quote I submitted is "good social democratic stuff". Or we could just agree to disagree. On a positive note, I'm pleased to see the NDP's statement on the MAI (as far as it goes) even

[PEN-L:10389] Re: Gender roles

On Wed, May 28, 1997 at 11:45:31 (-0700) Wojtek Sokolowski writes: ... For these reasons, we can safely dismiss all so-so biologies, eveloutionary psychologies, etc. as crap without even reading it, for the same reason we dismiss astrology, parapsychology, and metaphysics without even bothering

[PEN-L:10388] Re: New creationism

I want to second Mark's post re Ehrenreich. The _Nation_ article she co-wrote with Janet McIntosh is a net subtraction from human knowledge. The trick of imagining the most extreme pomo objection to your argument and then demolishing it has allowed peddlers of every variety of reductivism to

[PEN-L:10387] Alexa on MAI (fwd)

I just received this message about the NDP's position on the MAI. Penners can use it as grist for the mill in the debate between Paul Phillips and Tom Walker. Cheers, Sid Shniad Here is the position of the New Democratic Party of Canada on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI),

[PEN-L:10386] Re: Greenwashing Times: Working Assets update 4/29/97

Thanks for posting Jon Entine's article. It supports my suspicions voiced in my pervious posting that much of "green marketing" is simply a gimmick aimed at yuppies and suckers like myself who both wnat to have and eat their cakes. There is, however, one thing that I do not quite understand:

[PEN-L:10385] Re: Greenwashing Times: Working Assets update

Greetings, What's diabolical about this capitalist point of view, as I'm sure you know, is that workers already run and operate everything in society. The view is pushed that it is the workers who need the capitalists. Of course, the opposite is the case. Speaking objectively, the workers

[PEN-L:10384] IBM felonies

A while back, somebody asked me about a citation for IBM putting out tab machines with the competition's brand name on it, but with faulty mechanical innards. This is described along with a multitude of other crimes and misdemeanors in: Author: DeLamarter, Richard Thomas. Title:

[PEN-L:10383] Cyber-revolution

The Chicago area computer programmers and activists who decided to start a new journal called cy.Rev chose wisely to publish on the World Wide Web of the Internet. This is a great example of merging medium and the message after the fashion of Marshall McLuhan. The driving force behind this

[PEN-L:10382] Re: Gender roles

At 08:32 AM 5/28/97 -0700, Bill Lear wrote: Buss uses what is called "evolutionary psychology" to explain the "mating" preferences of men and women. Basically, women, since they are more reproductively "valuable" than men and must invest much more in the gestation of a child, naturally "select"

[PEN-L:10381] FW: Petition to American Airlines

-- From: Pennell, Julia To: Esposito, Jeffrey P.; Kabatt, Laura T.; Pyle, Spencer M.; Battisti, Armand A.; Boes, Maria; McCullough, Mary; Bove, Roger E.; Hewitt, William; Larsen, Elizabeth; Lammers, Kevin E.; Kelly, Leonard I.; Bednar, Cynthia; Jimenez, Carolyn; Radich, Carol Ann;

[PEN-L:10373] Gender roles

In August of 1994 I wrote a few very brief notes on a book I had just read (subsequently lost in the mail from a friend who borrowed it) called _The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating_ by David M. Buss (Basic Books, 1994). Since we had been on the topic of gender roles, I thought I

[PEN-L:10376] Greenwashing Times: Working Assets update 4/29/97

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[PEN-L:10377] Re: Gender roles

there's clearly a biological/genetic/evolutionary basis for sexism. Obviously, the average man's superior upper body strength compared to the average woman gives him the upper hand when "might makes right." And that's a basis of a lot of women's subordination (even though it's becoming

[PEN-L:10379] Re: New creationism

I have to say I did not like that "New Creationism" article at all, and wonder why the Nation would even print it, let alone make it their cover article. In an age when Newsweek runs cover stories about how standards of beauty are genetically determined, books like the Bell Curve get a serious

[PEN-L:10380] Re: Greenwashing Times: Working Assets update

I few years ago, Harvard gave Ben Cohen, of Ben Jerry's an award -- I forget the name of it -- but its an annual award for "progressive" business leaders (I know, its an oxymoron, but I just work here). Anyway, I went to his talk, and was at the cocktail party/dinner afterwards. So I used the

[PEN-L:10378] Re: Greenwashing Times: Working Assets update

Excellent piece on Working Assets from Entine, who's done excellent work on the whole soulful capitalism scam (Body Shop, Ben Jerry's, socially responsible investing, etc.). And who are the two corporate co-sponsors of the upcoming Media Democracy conference in NYC (entrance fee: a very

[PEN-L:10375] Re: Working Assets Labor

I want to raise a different issue re Working Assets. Working Assets has moved aggressively into green marketing of electricity, and it is doing it in a very dishonest way. I'm on the Energy Advocates List and we've had a vigorous debate about both the merits of green marketing as a way

[PEN-L:10374] New creationism

There is an excellent article in the last issue of The Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich on "new creationsim" -- radical social constructivism asserting unqueness of human nature, stemming from a certain brand of postmodernism, and characterised by its hostility toward "hard" sciences. However,

[PEN-L:10371] Umbrage

But Tom, what you quote Alexa as saying is good social democratic stuff -- make the capitalist system work properly through redistribution, sound fiscal and monetary policy, and the provision of a secure social wage. You are criticizing her for not being a socialist. But the CCF abandoned any

[PEN-L:10372] crimes against humanitarianism

I just got a press release announcing a protest. The event itself is so luscious that I can't resist passing it on. On June 29, 1997, 6 PM, Waldorf-Astoria NYC, the United Jewish Appeal will present its Humanitarian of the Year Award to...Rupert Murdoch. Making the actual presentation will be