[Platt] > A couple of monkeys behaving with reciprocity in a zoo is hardly evidence > of our inheriting a spirit (sic) of cooperation from our animal ancestors.
[Pirsig "intellectual faith in man's basic goodness as spontaneous and natural is disastrously naive...maybe it is man's basic goodness which invented social institutions to repress this land of biological savagery in the first place." (Lila, 24) Pirsig's point is that evolution is not limited to biology. Humans are evolving with their social instituions. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
