From: David Burman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Riane Eisler, in her books "The Chalice and the Blade" and "Sacred
>Pleasure", which report and interpret up-to-date interpretations of
>palaolithic archeology, shows that violence and domination are far from
>eing natural human traits.
The is like saying the propensity for people to shoot other people isn't
natural because we only started doing it in the last 500 years or so. But
the ONLY important difference between the man of yore and the Joe Six-pack
of today is the "system" he is embedded in.
Apologists for human behavior resort to an infinite variety of "deus ex
machina" excuses such as "agriculture", "politicians", "capitalists",
"communists", "television", "alien abduction", "Ken Star", on-and-on ad
nauseam. Of course this is utter nonsense. We screwed ourselves.
This endless minting of excuses is simply part of our genetic propensity to
deceive ourselves. It makes us better liars.
Jay -- www.dieoff.com
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deus ex machina
deus ex machina (dA´es èks mä´ke-ne, -nä´, màk´e-ne) noun
1.In Greek and Roman drama, a god lowered by stage machinery to resolve a
plot or extricate the protagonist from a difficult situation.
2.An unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event
introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or
untangle a plot.
3.A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a
difficulty.
