In a message dated 7/20/01 11:11:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Well let's say there's cooperation AND competition in nature. However, the
United States seems to empahsize the competitive side (Social Darwinism
was real popular here...) at the expense of the cooperative side, while
other cultures do not over-value individualism and therefore can cooperate
better. *That* gets us back to politics. (Oh, can somebody give this
thread a title? I haven't figured out how to edit the header in this
particular program.)
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I actually think the cooperation competition/ paradign is wrong for nature or
at least misleading. Natural things act selfishly period. This is better seen
as zero sum (roughly but not exactly competitive) and non-zero (roughly but
not exactly cooperative). As to what we in america do: I'm not sure that our
individualism really translates into competitive versus cooperative. All
complex societies (and ours is amoung the most complex) are cooperative.
Individualism to me is more about personal actions than economic actions.
