On 20 Jul., 14:10, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I am sure that early man, before being saturated with media, politics,
> religious dogma, and over-population, was a much more peaceful animal.
Personally, I'm inclined to doubt this - the propensity to violence
and killing has been there from the very beginning. Even leaving aside
the sf device of the monolith as an intelligence-enhancing
evolutionary accelerator, I think Kubrick and Clarke were on the right
track (tool = weapon very quickly):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=256NgMW4tQw&feature=related
(ignore the music, it's a rejected sound track but the only youtube
clip I could find where the homicide wasn't edited out)
What modern humanity has managed to do is to develop more
sophisticated methods of mass killing which don't entail getting
splattered with the blood of your victim any more. In the words of
Pink Floyd; "'Forward!' he cried from the rear,/ And the front line
died, / And the general sighed / and the lines on the map / moved from
side to side..." (Not to mention the ultimate thrill of pushing the
big red button.)
Francis
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