Someone will blame it on failing to moderate the Cherokee girl within the hour. Standard neo-Darwinism now is that we are borne in a co-evolutionary arms' race. Even micro-organisms that fight in the wild can cooperate in other circumstances. Perhaps our closest profile are the assimilating Borg. We are nothing like the humans portrayed in literature. That thing you kiss has fewer human cells than micro-organisms, even when not dying of 'flu. And wars are about such as smallpox blankets, starvation ...
In some species of ants, even workers may be distinguished by nine levels of aggression. Lions are very 'Numbers 31' when new males take over a pride and we even relate female 'promiscuity' in chimps and other strategies to the prevention of infanticide by males (hippos do this too). Mum would have had no time for me telling tales on that dreadful Thiede girl. This said, some of the instruments of torture that prevent learning are present in this group and elsewhere in our petty spite societies. These are important matters, so we can rely on mostly silence here. Gabby raises them behind her own screen and multiple aliases. I would go a long way to be victim of her wit, at least, as we said once, 't'foot a oor stairs'. No use running all the way home to Mommy. The est of the war story is economics as war by other means (discussed by Greeks, found in More's Utopia) and beggaring neighbours. This may even have an 'international financier' problem concealed in it. A big thesis in what I'd call 'perceptual-speed-language' is needed to discuss war and complex human issues. Now what might such language be? How might it help those too ignorant to know many facts? On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 6:35:47 AM UTC, Molly wrote: > > There is a story, believed to be of Cherokee origin, in which a girl is > troubled by a recurring dream in which two wolves fight viciously. Seeking > an explanation, she goes to her grandfather, highly regarded for his > wisdom, who explains that there are two forces within each of us, > struggling for supremacy, one embodying peace and the other, war. At this, > the girl is even more distressed, and asks her grandfather who wins. His > answer: “The one you feed.” > > This from a New York Times article "Are We Hard-Wired for War" > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/are-we-hard-wired-for-war.html > > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2013%2F09%2F29%2Fopinion%2Fsunday%2Fare-we-hard-wired-for-war.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFdOc9Ush5Ai8fOpb4uoS1njKyo_Q> > > That also references this national interest article on the nature of war: > > http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/what-our-primate-relatives-say-about-war-7996 > > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnationalinterest.org%2Fcommentary%2Fwhat-our-primate-relatives-say-about-war-7996&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHeehbCq8LgZ8AwpLX2q-9GyACyww> > > Looks like Kant thought war ingrained in human nature: > http://www.iep.utm.edu/war/#H3 <http://www.iep.utm.edu/war/#H3> But I > wonder, are we so hell bent on dominating one another that we can't help > but rip each other apart, whatever the group? Marshall Rosenberg's > compassionate communication model has been around for at least a decade but > you couldn't see it anywhere in a CNN broadcast. The models of argument, > problems solving, conflict resolution, group dynamic are available to > everyone here since this group is on the internet, yet the drive to > deconstruct into war and chaos seems to overwhelm, and often. Why? We go > around an around with it, and come up with problems in translation and > cultural differences yet it seems to me that over time these could be > resolved. So what is it that brings us back to the dross over and over? > Beyond who's right and who's wrong there is a skip in the record > here interfering with the concert. What is it? > > > > > On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:29:29 PM UTC-4, Molly wrote: >> >> https://youtu.be/_d8C4AIFgUg <https://youtu.be/_d8C4AIFgUg> >> >> >> >> On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:03:34 PM UTC-4, Molly wrote: >>> >>> Howard Zinn, http://howardzinn.org/ historian, author, professor, >>> playwright, and activist, whose life’s work focused on a wide range of >>> issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of >>> countless people, said "war itself is the enemy of the human race" >>> http://bit.ly/1FwyDUP <http://bit.ly/1FwyDUP> >>> >>> We go to war in a variety of ways, big to small. daily (some of us), in >>> interpersonal ways, and over decades, as the human race. Why? >>> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
